Re: build failure for devel/scons

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

On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 11:02:02PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 10:33:22PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 09:54:20PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > > Workaround: pkg_delete py*-setuptools before building scons.
> > 
> > Stupid question: why do so many pkgs have a full dependency on py*-setuptools
> > (instead of just a build one)?
> 
> Because at least historically, it was necessary to register packages on
> installation time. lang/python was never updated.

I've just made setuptools a TOOL_DEPENDS and verified that it doesn't
break any of the egg.mk packages, and bumped their PKGREVISION.
 Thomas