Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 23:09:44 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Grandfather dependencies completely out of control Message-ID: <4BDD1728.8080903@FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Howdy, I'm looking at the use of portmaster to upgrade perl versions, and noticed that there are a ton of ports listed as dependent on perl that don't have any use for it, including one of mine: qbittorrent-2.2.6 >> libnotify-0.4.5_3 >> atk-1.28.0 >> gio-fam-backend-2.22.4 >> gamin-0.1.10_3 >> glib-2.22.4 >> perl-threaded-5.8.9_3 Taking a look at devel/glib20, I see this: USE_PERL5= yes although from the docs in the glib tarball it's not at all clear (to me anyway) what it's used for. Given that it doesn't seem to be a rundep for glib20 it's also not at all clear to me why qbittorrent should have a pkgdep for it. Can someone please explain what the heck is going on here? (And please note, I'm picking on glib20 because this seems to be a particularly egregious example, but I'm really more interested in the problem generally.) Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4BDD1728.8080903>