Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:43:06 +0300 (MSK) From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru> To: clash@fireduck.com (Joe Gleason) Cc: warendaj@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not so much a question ... Message-ID: <200101080643.JAA04170@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <000d01c07933$8dd95f20$0c2d2d0a@fireduck.com> from "Joe Gleason" at "Jan 8, 1 00:26:28 am"
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Joe Gleason writes: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > This should probably be in ports as well.... > > This brings up several questions: > > 1) Do any ports have dependencies that they don't really need? If so, is > there a plan to work on this? > > 2) Should there be a function to list dependencies and recursive > dependencies of a port? Is there one already? That way a person could see > what was involved before deciding to install a port. Something like 'make > showdepends' would be really cool. ports/sysutils/pib > I could probably make a shell script that does 2, but I dont know who I > would give it to. > > > In answer to your question of how to gracefully abort a 'make install', > generally Ctrl+C and then 'make clean'. While make clean wont delete any > dependencies already installed, it will clean up working files in them all. > > Joe Gleason > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John" <warendaj@home.com> > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 12:05 AM > Subject: Not so much a question ... > > > > ... as a concern. > > > > I'm a huge fan of the ports collection, one of the things that first > > turned me on to FreeBSD. It's a miracle convenience, but after three plus > > years running FreeBSD on various systems, I've been shocked tonight to have > > a complaint about it. > > Tinkering with a spare system, I had just gotten X running and wanted to > > make it a little more pleasing than plain old twm. I figured what the heck, > > I'll check out Windowmaker. That port went swimingly. > > > > Before I left the X11-wm ports dir, a "wmakerconfig" dir caught my eye. > > I decided to take a peek at the pkg-descr. It sounded like it might be a > > handy little thing as I'd no experience with Windowmaker. I went ahead and > > did the 'make install' and walked out of the room to get a soda. > > I was rather shocked that it was still going by the time I came back. > > Hm, why's that I thought. Much to my shock over 50 megs of dependancies and > > dependancies on dependancies on dependancies on ... you get the idea ... > > were being installed. I decided to let it go because it was half way > > through installing GTK which I figured wouldn't be bad to have installed > > anyway because I'd probably need it for more significant things if I decided > > to play with X more. > > More to my horror this wasn't the least of it. Then it needed to > > install everything from automake to *RedHat Package Manager* ... to Lord > > only knows what else. Needless to say if I knew I was going to be getting > > 80 megs of stuff I'll probably never have need for again, I'd probably have > > avoided the install all together (it's still going, I may not even have a > > use for this program). ...... so on -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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