notmuch &… [was: kde4-runtime, samba3, and talloc]

[Ludwig]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2015, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> On Saturday April 25 2015 10:38:03 Marko Käning wrote:
> 
> >Well, I believe that samba should rather move into a dedicated variant, as
> >it is perhaps not necessarily of general interest for all MacPorts/KDE
> >users…
> 
> I'd argue the opposite. kde4-runtime is a "base" package, providing
> functionality used by other KDE4 apps. "notmuch" on the other hand provides a
> very specific and IMVHO rather obscure functionality. I think that someone
> who really wants to have both ports installed can decide for him/herself if
> it's worth building kde4-runtime from source with -nosamba (or -samba with
> +samba being a default variant) and suffering the potential loss of
> functionality in certain KDE4 apps. 
> 
> R.

Isn’t talloc basically a component of Samba? Port info decribes it as

> talloc is a hierarchical, reference counted memory pool system with
> destructors. It is the core memory allocator used in Samba.

Which sounds to me like notmuch should be happy having all of samba3, even though
all it really needs is the talloc piece.

L.