Hello,
mail/sendmail/Makefile reads
USES= cpe uidfix groff
This leads to a dependency of 191 ports to build sendmail.
Including two versions of python framework, a compiler, which
corresponds to the one provided by base, and things like wayland, cups,
w3m, git etc.... (and default options are highly inconsistent for IDN
e.g in this dependency mess).
I have no idea why
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=460448 was
needed, so where to start fixing that?
Reverting that commit (removing groff from USES) reduces dependency by
183 ports (8 instead of 191).
I'd love to see porters handbook showing samples of reusable snippets,
which maintainers can think about and adapt before incorporating it and
still save a lot of time, instead of incorporationg completely
non-understandable/-documented makros, spending hours for reading what's
the idea behind USES+= groff afterwards. Somebody is forced to do the
latter :-(
Btw, SMTPUTF8 option leads to
domain.c:17:10: fatal error: 'unicode/uidna.h' file not found
#include <unicode/uidna.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If I wouldn't feel like I don't understand anything from ports anymore,
I'd love to help out with patches, but I don't know where to start and I
simply don't get the idea of the decisions for the way FreeBSD's ports
tree was pushed to.
Just wanted to point out this circumstance and tell anybody else,
wondering how things can go so wrong, to pay attention to USES lines in
port's Makefile.
Thanks to everybody for keeping the ports tree alive and healthy from
the users point of view.
-harry
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