On 12/14/14 19:07, Kenneth Westerback wrote: > On 14 December 2014 at 13:50, Nigel Taylor > <njtay...@asterisk.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> Time to remove GNOME I from ports, it's old and ancient, and not >> maintained anymore. >> >> libghttp was the forerunner to libsoup and part of GNOME I, used to >> speed up p5-libwww, provided by including www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP, a wrapper >> around www/libghttp. This is the only remaining port using this GNOME I >> library. The dependency has lingered on but not used. >> >> Once p5-libwww has been updated, the www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP port can be >> removed and then followed by www/libghttp. >> >> I been using p5-libwww without libghttp/p5-HTTP-GHTTP for sometime on amd64. >> >> Only asking for Ok / Comments on www/p5-libwww >> > > Without commenting on technical desirability, although your > justification seems plausible to me, I can say I would *love* to see > this because p5-HTTP-GHTTP has been crapping out of my dpb builds for > some weeks now for reasons I haven't figured out, beyond knowing it > was related to libghttp. :-) > > .... Ken > Looking back at dpb logs p5-HTTP-GHTTP / libghttp built first time, 3 time in a row, and can't recall ever having failed, doesn't mean I don't believe your having problems. I have seen the same in my dpb builds with other ports far too often, where you can't explain why they failed other than using dpb.
Removing p5-HTTP-GHTTP is likely to just shift the problem elsewhere.
