official source tarball (NOT git)

[porkpie]

(11-28-2012 07:33 AM)Orphis Wrote:  When you try to build some software, you first download all the dependencies. Native is a dependency like there is in any other software and you can download the source using HTTP in the same way so there's no reason for you to ignore that.

There's no reason for it to be packaged incorrectly and thus require more than one step to fetch the distfile, in this case. pkgsrc has no problem fetching and building the dependencies otherwise.