Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:12:23 +0100 From: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> 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> In-Reply-To: <20010417000645.O13449-100000@benny.geektank.org>; from tmchow@sfu.ca on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:09:50AM -0700 References: <20010417000645.O13449-100000@benny.geektank.org>
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* Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca> [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
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