Re: pkg/42012 (ejabberd needs expat but is not listed in dependencies)

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42012; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/42012 (ejabberd needs expat but is not listed in
 dependencies)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:16:28 -0500 (CDT)

 On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 
 >  Two possible solutions are:
 >  a) install expat from the X sets (you don't need to install all files,
 >  just the expat libraries)
 >  b) recompile against expat from pkgsrc
 
 What about having packages that need expat use pkgsrc dependency by 
 default.  Seems liks this is a common problem.
 
 Also, it would be nice if packages were built and provided using modular X 
 without any X base sets installed.
 
 Also pkg_add should complain about this at install time.
 
 I think pkgin can detect and warn about this problem.