Re: pkg/58113: cmake depends on curl and may use build-time network access

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/58113; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/58113: cmake depends on curl and may use build-time network
 access
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 23:23:33 +0200

 On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 06:25:00PM +0000, campbell+netbsd%mumble.net@localhost wrote:
 > We should fix cmake to disable this design mistake so it
 > 
 > (a) doesn't bring in a curl dependency, and
 > (b) never even thinks about attempting network access.
 
 It's an upstream feature that people might expect to have.
 
 I have no problem with an option that you can turn off if you want,
 and pkgsrc disabling it at build time, but we shouldn't limit what
 people use cmake (installed by pkgsrc) for outside of pkgsrc.
  Thomas