Subject: RECOMMENDED
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/06/2004 22:28:27
Hi,

I admit I did not follow the discussion about RECOMMNDED. Since it generates
DEPENDS by default, it's getting really annoying in practice - it's
widely abused to force the _latest_ available package version,
which is just bogus.  For example, I had whole KDE3 installation
rebuilt on make update because of libgcrypt RECOMMENDED line.

Can please the default be changed to not generate the DEPENDS, but only
some kind of build-time warning?

Thanks,

Jaromir
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>            http://www.NetBSD.cz/
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