Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:10:01 -0800 (PST) From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: ports/32321: x11/kdelibs2 installs print cups, which then causes problem Message-ID: <200111291810.fATIA1O49652@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>,
James Halstead <jah4007@cs.rit.edu>
Cc: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>,
Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org, gad@freebsd.org, kde@freebsd.org,
leimbacd@bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: ports/32321: x11/kdelibs2 installs print
cups, which then causes problem
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:08:51 -0500
At 10:24 AM -0500 11/29/01, Will Andrews wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:17:49AM -0500, James Halstead wrote:
> > The only difference about this way and the current way will be that
> > anybody depending on cups will have to change it to cups-base.
>
>Why? If you change cups to a metaport it shouldn't be any
>different from the old way.
A port such as KDE would need to be changed to "cups-base", because it
does *not* want to force the install of alternate 'lpr', etc. In my
opinion, it is pretty reasonable to expect KDE to make that change.
In my current ports tree, the following are the only ports which list
print/cups as a dependency:
./net/samba/Makefile
./net/samba-devel/Makefile
./print/xpp/Makefile
./x11/kdelibs2/Makefile
If we say that 'cups-base' does not install lpr, and that the 'cups'
meta-port does install it, then XPP does not need to change, as that
*is* a graphical front-end to CUPS, and it would be pretty odd to
install on a system which isn't using CUPS.
KDE should depend on cups-base, because it should not trigger the
installation of the alternate lpr.
I don't know if samba should depend on cups-base or cups, because I
don't know what it's doing with cups, but that is the only other
port where we even have to care about this question.
Speaking with my sysadmin hat on, I would expect the port named 'cups'
to install all of cups, including the replacements for lpr. So, I
like the idea of having cups-base, and changing KDE (and samba?) to
depend on cups-base.
> > I will make the change and upload it, after I get home from work
>> today.
>
>Thanks.
Yes, thanks for finding the time to work on this. I think it will
be very helpful to users if we sort this out.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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