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From: Till Klampaeckel <till@php.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: drop lang/erlang-lite and update lang/erlang
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>Number:         160003
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       drop lang/erlang-lite and update lang/erlang
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    olgeni
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 22 16:30:18 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:    Wed Aug 15 13:52:36 UTC 2012
>Last-Modified:  Wed Aug 15 13:52:36 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Till Klampaeckel
>Release:        latest
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
The two ports create issues for the several ports relying on them:

 * databases/couchdb
 * net-im/ejabberd

Most/All these (server) ports don't require Erlang with a full-fledge Java, X11 and/or ODBC install but when they rely on lang/erlang-lite instead, it creates unnecessary conflicts when someone has lang/erlang installed already.

The other option is to adjust the Makefiles of those ports -- which makes them unnecessary complicated also.

My proposal is to drop lang/erlang-lite and change lang/erlang to behave like lang/erlang-lite currently does by default.

In addition, lang/erlang would then accept WITH_JAVA, WITH_X11, WITH_ODBC and WITH_SMP so users can still get the "full" environment installed. Though I think the majority of Erlang users or the ports relying on this port won't need this often.

I can help updating the port or at least test updates.
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>Fix:


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Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->olgeni 
Responsible-Changed-By: edwin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Aug 22 16:30:51 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool) 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160003 
State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: olgeni 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 29 14:09:28 UTC 2011 
State-Changed-Why:  
Makes sense... let me look into it. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160003 

From: till <till@php.net>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/160003: drop lang/erlang-lite and update lang/erlang
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:35:54 +0200

 Awesome, let me know. ;-)
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed 
State-Changed-By: olgeni 
State-Changed-When: Wed Aug 15 13:50:37 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  
At long last, lang/erlang-lite is finally gone. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160003 
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