[Bug 276189] multimedia/vmaf: BUILD_DEPENDS explicitly depends on sysutils/xxd even though xxd might have been installed with editors/vim

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276189

George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |Works As Intended
             Status|New                         |Closed

--- Comment #2 from George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> ---
Well, it does appear that I could have avoided the problem by upgrading to the
most recent vim.  However, my system's state is that /usr/local/bin/xxd had
been installed by the old version of vim without sysutils/xxd having been
installed, and it caused a conflict when I was upgrading ffmpeg4.  So, yes,
this arises from a user error on my part.

Nevertheless, it seems more flavorful to me for the vmaf Makefile (or other
Makefiles in similar situations) to declare a dependency simply on the required
binary, rather than (dogmatically it seems to me) on the required binary having
been installed by a specific package.

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