Please Help - can't install ufraw

[David Evans]

 On 10/19/10 8:31 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:24, David Evans wrote:
>> On 10/19/10 8:14 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> Why don't we delete that variant and make the xpdf port always do that?
>>>
>> I agree but there is a political history behind this.
>>
>> Xpdf was first and poppler is an off-shoot of the original xpdf code written
>> as a library to allow other projects to use it.
>>
>> The two have diverged some-what and it has only been relatively recently
>> that
>> xpdf  was modified to allow linking to poppler rather than use its own code.
>>
>> Xpdf web site still doesn't mention poppler although it is the variant
>> that is
>> currently being maintained (xpdf hasn't had a change in a year and then only
>> minor).
>>
>> But the solution that you propose would be the one that works.
>>
>> Perhaps just making the +with_poppler variant a default variant would
>> fix the
>> problem and allow xpdf purists to use xpdf without poppler (if they
>> really never
>> want to use poppler).
> If the variant is kept, I would want it renamed to just "+poppler" (we do not name variants with "with_" or "without_" prefixes in MacPorts).
>
> Also if the variant is kept my addition of the conflicts keywords needs to be fixed to only apply the conflict if it's actually relevant.
>
>
Well, saying it that way sounds a bit too contrived to me so I would
vote to just make the poppler dependency
the default behavior without any variant.