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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 01:26:06PM -0500, Robin Cook wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 00:17 -0500, David Kowis wrote:
> > Quoting Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>:
> > 
> > > I have it disabled as I am unable to get it to compile against Mozilla's
> > > (v1.6) nss, and the nss spell breaks epiphany and galeon2.
> > > 
> > > If you don't use either one of those feel free to uncomment the nss
> > > optional_depends in DEPENDS.
> > > 
> > IMHO, wouldn't it be better to have the optional depends default to no  no
> > matter what spell was actually there, and put a big fat warning on it?
> 
> Unless it has been fixed recently saying no to an optional_depends of a
> PROVIDES doesn't pass the correct configure options.  That is why it is
> commented out in the DEPENDS and has the OPTS line in BUILD as I could
> not get it to pass them correctly when I selected no.

That behaviour has been fixed, saying no a provider now passes the
configure options.

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