A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 17, 2011, at 2:15 PM, M.E. O'Neill wrote:
> 
> Daniel wrote:
>> we try not to actively break the use of MacPorts on non Mac OS X systems
> 
> Just how many users does MacPorts have on these non-Mac-OS-X systems?
> 
> The fact that no one seems to know if kaffe even works in any meaningful way (it almost certainly doesn't) seems to indicate that the number is essentially zero.

IFF everyone cares about java?

I don't care too much either way, it just seems like removing it as a dependency has this tradeoff:
- maybe break compatibility (which was maybe already broken)
+ make the perceived dependency graph look simpler

It seems like it might be more interesting to make the deps engine/dependency graph smarter (so it knows that it won't actually be installing kaffe and its deps), not that I'm offering patches ;-)

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