From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 2 06:09:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DAEE106564A for ; Sun, 2 May 2010 06:09:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 327168FC16 for ; Sun, 2 May 2010 06:09:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 30038 invoked by uid 399); 2 May 2010 06:09:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 2 May 2010 06:09:46 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4BDD1728.8080903@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 23:09:44 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Grandfather dependencies completely out of control X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 06:09:47 -0000 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/