Re: new package: wip/dcc (Distributed Checksum Clearinghouses)

Petar Bogdanovic <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:33:44AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> 
>> Petar Bogdanovic <[email protected]> writes:
>> So, the question is whether there should even be options, or just build
>> it all.  What bad thing would happen if all three options were defaulted
>> to on?
>> 
>> I suspect Vernon would prefer that we always include dccd, so as to
>> maximally encourage running a server.  It seems that dccd would be ok,
>> just a few more bits.  Leaving the option lets someone who is for some
>> reason both filtering mail and tight on space cope, but it seems dccd
>> should be present in default builds.
>
> The only disadvantage when adding dccd is that you'll pollute your
> dcc_home with configuration files only used by dccd.. which is a bit
> disencouraging if you just want to use one of the clients. At least
> that's what my impression was when I first did a default install. :)

I see - but with the dccproc man page and the spamassassin help, one
doesn't need to look :-)

>> (A nit is that --disable-server should also omit the server man pages.)
>
> I tried to keep it default and follow what `make install' does. And it
> leaves not just the man pages but also the configuration examples for
> dccd. (and maybe a few other things)

That's totally reasonable.  pkgsrc is really not the place to fix things
like that - should be reported/fixed upstream.

> Also there is no way to disable the cgi-bin stuff which is the only
> reason why the package depends on perl.

Sure there is: add a patch that removes it from Makefile.  But I'm not
sure one should do that - perl is big, but the odds of someone wanting
dcc and not already having perl seem low.

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