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Date:      Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:55:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: docproj depends on X11 now?!?!
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010224102555.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010224225633.B64525@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>

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On 24-Feb-01 Nik Clayton wrote:
> Copying -ports, since they're likely to know the answer.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:41:46PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>> If memory serves me right, John Baldwin wrote:
>> > Woah.  I was building a test release with DOCS turned on and happened to
>> > look
>> > over and saw that it was installing the XFree86 3.3.6 port due to a
>> > dependenc
>> > y
>> > on libpng.  Which is an interactive port.  Which makes release not be
>> > non-interactive anymore.  This needs to be fixed, esp. before it comes
>> > time t
>> > o
>> > rolling 4.3.
>> 
>> I don't know how to fix this, but the problem is that the graphics/
>> eps2png port depends on the print/ghostscript6 port, which sets 
>> USE_XLIB.  Guess what dependency that triggers.  :-(
> 
> Why doesn't USE_XLIB depend on just the X libs, specifically the
> x11/XFree86-4-libraries port, instead of the whole of X?

Because it depends on X 3 by default.  We haven't switched to X 4 as the
default X implementation.  You can fight with jkh over that if you enjoy long
e-mails from jkh. :)

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