From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 2:12:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FE737B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rasputin@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14pRX6-000BAo-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:12:24 +0100 Received: (from rasputin@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3H9CNc85550 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:12:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rasputin) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:12:23 +0100 From: Rasputin To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why do all ports want Xfree86 3.3.6_8? Message-ID: <20010417101223.A85480@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <20010417000645.O13449-100000@benny.geektank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010417000645.O13449-100000@benny.geektank.org>; from tmchow@sfu.ca on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:09:50AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Trevin Chow [010417 08:11]: > While I was browsing the +CONTENTS in a bunch of ports in /var/db/pkg, > i noticed that a huge number of ports depend on XFree86 3.3.6_8. I"m just > wondering why this is the case. I have XFree8i6 4.0.3_3 installed, > and when I tried installing the MTR port (/usr/ports/net/mtr), it kept > looking for some gtk library -- so I had to installed gtk 1.2. After > looking at the dependencies for mtr, I noticed that even the mtr port > depends on Xfree86 3.3.6_8! Why would all these ports depend on a version > of Xfree86 that I don't even have installed? Should I manually change > these depencies to 4.0.3_3? Or put XFREE86_VERSION=4 in /etc/make.conf. -- Rasputin Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message