Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 10:49:21 +1100 From: Graham Menhennitt <graham@menhennitt.com.au> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dependency explosions Message-ID: <a0d4ab8a-8f2c-55d9-6e1e-b1845cf20b1e@menhennitt.com.au> In-Reply-To: <43d4823b-ef7f-19b6-a065-45ad760ddd41@menhennitt.com.au> References: <trinity-46b750ae-29f6-400c-bc23-2de14c5a034f-1475707085095@msvc-mesg-gmx119> <43d4823b-ef7f-19b6-a065-45ad760ddd41@menhennitt.com.au>
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Sorry, I just read that UPDATING entry again. Cyrus is only provided to=20 Dovecot if Postfix is present. I do not have Postfix present. So, I=20 think that I do need to install Cyrus explicitly. So, back to my original question, why does "pkg autoremove" want to=20 uninstall Cyrus when I explicitly installed it from the port? Thanks, Graham On 6/10/2016 10:12 AM, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > Thanks for that, olli. > > I didn't understand how I'd missed the fact that Dovecot now included=20 > Cyrus. So I had a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING. Searching for Dovecot=20 > shows a mention of it in the entry at 20160228. However, that's=20 > entitled "AFFECTS: users of mail/postfix", and I don't use Postfix. I=20 > think that Dovecot should have its own entry in UPDATING for that=20 > change too. > > Graham > > On 6/10/2016 9:38 AM, olli hauer wrote: >> Postfix in combination with dovecot doesn't require cyrus, since some=20 >> months dovecot support is always provided by postfix. >> But i"m sorry and cannot expliain why cyrus is installed on your syste= m >> --=20 >> send with broken GMX mailer client, sorry for tofu and html scrap >> On 06/10/2016, 00:29 Graham Menhennitt <graham@menhennitt.com.au> wrot= e: >> >> On 6/10/2016 8:20 AM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >> > Le 05/10/2016 =C3=A0 22:04, Julian Elischer a =C3=A9crit : >> >> Another thing that might be good woudl be a way to tell ports >> "remove >> >> all the ports that were just build dependencies". >> > pkg autoremove >> > >> >> Thanks for that Mathieu - I didn't know about that one. >> >> However... >> >> When I run it, it tells me that it's going to remove my cyrus-SASL >> port. >> I installed that (via its port) so that I can use SSL/TLS >> authentication >> on my Dovecot server (installed via the dovecot2 port). So Cyrus >> is not >> a build dependency of anything - why is it offering to remove it? >> >> Thanks, >> Graham >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "
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