Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes: > Some packages in pkgsrc have an introspection option that basically > adds a gobject-introspection build dependency and installs more files > (*.typelib, *.gir). > > However, this is not consistently applied. For example, PR 56755 > complains that when introspection is disabled for harfbuzz, pango > won't build (because it unconditionally enables introspection). > > We could of course fix pango to honor the global introspection option > (and probably would need to fix some pango dependencies next), but > before doing that I wonder what the rationale is for turning it off in > the first place? > > The build dependency doesn't look heavy enough for me to make this > option worth the hassle. I have never tried to turn it off. I wonder if there is still a need; weight isn't a good enough reason but "gobject-introspection" broken might be. The pkg is pesky on macOS; it fails when an older version is installed, but I work around that -- still not enough to disable it. A way forward without churn and without foreclosing options might be: policy is gobject-introspection option is default on define that some package not honoring it is not a bug, but clean patches to add it are welcome which amounts to a few lines in the guide and closing the PR.
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