[MacPorts] #14775: RFE: new prefix for heimdal affects other ports

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#14775: RFE: new prefix for heimdal affects other ports
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  Reporter:  marcuscalhounlopez at mac.com  |       Owner:  macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
      Type:  enhancement                 |      Status:  new                                  
  Priority:  Normal                      |   Milestone:  Port Enhancements                    
 Component:  ports                       |     Version:  1.6.0                                
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Comment (by landonf at macports.org):

 Heimdal and MIT Kerberos both place header files and binaries directly in
 the search path that conflict with each other, so I finally decided to
 create a separate prefix.

 As a strong proponent for the "using our own libraries" policy, I find
 myself in the funny position of defending the exact opposite tack. On Mac
 OS X, Kerberos is a system service. It integrates with the Keychain, the
 GUI, etc. You can make Heimdal kerberos integrate with the system ticket
 store, but (I believe this is still the case), it doesn't do so by
 default, and so you wind up with dual ticket stores and libraries and
 configuration.

 I could be convinced that I'm wrong, and that ports should depend on
 Heimdal kerberos, and we should just ensure that it works correctly with
 the system ticket store by default.

 I am pretty sure about using a separate prefix though -- otherwise, too
 many things conflict in the same search space.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14775#comment:1>
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