On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:50:13AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:55:22 +0200
> Simon Dassow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > I absolutly disagree with you removing the tk flavor and making
> > > tk and tcl a dependency. This makes ruby REQUIRE X11 to be intalled. 
> > > Which is totally ridiculous. Why should I have to install x11 to run 
> > > a ruby app ? 
> > 
> > I totally agree with Mathieu. 
> > Another issue: the license switch, why?  Ruby is still GPLed as seen on
> > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt
> > Besides that, it builds on a 3.8-beta i386, tests on current follow if
> > tcl/tk is a flavor again (machine without x11).
> 
>       Yeah, I think that the tk libs may only be looked for at runtime, not 
> compile
> time.  I'm not sure how clean/clear that would perceived as in the ports 
> tree...

Hmm... i commented out the depends et voila, builds on current sparc64
without x.  The files are there, but unused... what about subpackaging
those ruby extensions with depencies?

Regards
Simon

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