Re: cmake circular dependency

Jonathan Perkin <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:18:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* On 2026-07-24 at 13:46 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:

>But I still think that if we can remediate main cmake, perhaps just
>addding a 'cmake-full' metapackage that wraps cmake and curl, it could
>be enough with far less change.

As there seems to be a reasonable amount of disagreement, or at least 
lack of consensus, on how to proceed, I've changed tack and am instead 
working on a "cmake-bundled" PKG_OPTION for it which will avoid external 
dependencies, and folks like me can just enable this option.

I think that's probably the simplest path forward here.  Maybe one day 
we could go all fancy and have some detection for other PKG_OPTIONS 
being enabled and automatically enable it when it will cause circular 
dependencies.

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