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by revelation 3272 days ago
You might like this essay:

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

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> Sam Leffler's graphics/libtiff is one of the 122 packages on the road to www/firefox, yet the resulting Firefox browser does not render TIFF images

Don't even get me started on the circular dependencies that need to be broken by installing packages with some options disabled. Kind of an awkward bootstrap.

I added CMake support to libtiff last year. Haven't checked if the ports tree uses it yet.