Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 22:41:24 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfig and transfig Message-ID: <199508132041.WAA07248@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Aug 1995 04:23:23 %2B0200." <95Aug12.192334pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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> Ok, then there should be some other place to list "maximal functionality" > dependencies. Yes, perhaps we should have a BELLS_AND_WHISTLES_HINTS += capability, as well as the existing EXEC_DEPENDS += Satoshi's the guy to convince on that. > But from the point of view of a user > who just wants stuff to work, there should at least have been some warning > when I pkg_install'd xfig that I needed transfig as well to get the full > functionality. Well, in fact, it all comes down to whoever writes the individual ports Makefiles, if they chooses to specify things to sniff &probe for. I suggest you provide a diff -c patch for the Makefile, & send it to the MAINTAINER= person listed in the xfig Makefile. But please do it as an .if ! exists echo Suggest you install foobar, rather than a EXEC_DEPENDS Julian S
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