I would patch opendht for now. I'm not against adding readline.pc to base 
(probably best done at the same time as renaming and fixing 
devel/readline's pc file) but best done after unlock (and preferably with a 
test bulk build).

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On 28 September 2025 23:33:13 SASANO Takayoshi <uaa@mx5.nisiq.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Since it unbreaks detection of devel/readline it results in ports
>> picking it up, resulting in hidden deps or breakage during bulk
>> builds.  Neutering these hidden deps in existing ports or moving the
>> .pc to ereadline.pc could be a solution, as discussed by matthieu@ and
>> ajacoutot@.  No idea what's the best way forward, nor whether we
>> should actually do anything at this point in the release cycle.
>
> How about to add /usr/lib/pkgconfig/readline.pc for pointing OpenBSD's
> /usr/lib/libreadine? (but it does not exist until now... this is bad idea?)
>
> I found this readline-ereadline problem when updating ports/devel/opendht
> 3.4.0 -> 3.5.4. Recent 3.5.x version of OpenDHT adds readline check
> with CMake's pkg_search_module() macro.
>
> Maybe I need to write a diff to disable the check of OpenDHT.
>
> Regards,
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> SASANO Takayoshi (JG1UAA) <uaa@mx5.nisiq.net>