On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 10:26:50 UTC, Martin Krejcirik
wrote:
The problem (in my case) is, that you also need to install the
-dev
packages of these libraries just to compile Phobos (even if you
don't
use curl in your programs at all).
As usual, -dev packages just make life worse for people and offer
no real benefit. :/
Maybe we just need something like --without-curl for Phobos
makefile.
If it's _really_ important that a curl binary is distributed with
D, it should be built statically. But I doubt it's actually THAT
important.
Make it a proper dep and let the distro packagers do what they do
best. The --without-curl switch is a good idea, btw.
-Wyatt
