On 2026/01/14 12:10, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> Apropos, I don't really understand why and how using CMake in a
> dependency demand using CMake in a package.

not sure whether it applies here, but sometimes software using another
port as a dependency wants to have .cmake files provided with that port,
which are only created in a cmake build. so that is sometimes a reason
why you might want to use a cmake build rather than an autoconf build.