Auto-adding optional depends

[Moritz Heiber]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:06:38 -0600
"Richard Pyne" <rpyne at kinfolk.org> wrote:

> Since I never got a response, I'll ask again. How can I turn off 
> the Auto adding of optional dependencies?????
> 
> This is a serious problem, there are cases where you may want to 
> remove something that has a dependency in an orderly manner by 
> rebuilding the application without using the dependency before 
> removing the module that is a dependency.

Richard,

the problem currently is that if optional dependencies do not carry a
modifier like ..

optional_depends "module" "--enable-somthing"
			  "--disable-something"
			  "text"

because there actually are no modifiers or a module picks them up
automatically .. like

optional_depends "module" "" "" "text"

then the optional depedencies gets auto-added if installed. You may
consider that a bug actually .. I, for one, find it sort of handy
because I get asked less questions. Please file a bugreport if you
don't see it that way.

Now, I see your point in asking for a circumvention and the easy way
out would be to use lin --reconfigure .. I guess.

I didn't quite get your latest statement .. and if I'm barking up the
wrong tree please clarify. Thanks!

Regards,

Moritz