From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 9 8:36:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2D9815701 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 08:36:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 19766 invoked by uid 1003); 9 May 1999 15:37:13 -0000 Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:37:13 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: anders@fix.no, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port dependencies revisited Message-ID: <19990509173712.B61533@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <19990504174834.A61935@totem.fix.no> <19990506122728.A56033@rucus.ru.ac.za> <199905071331.GAA04919@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199905071331.GAA04919@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Fri, May 07, 1999 at 06:31:31AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Satoshi wrote: > * Right now, lib-depends uses "grep -F" to do it's checks, which forces > * it into a "literal" mode, and so regex constructs such as qt.[12] won't > * work. > * > * Is there a particularly good reason to use -F? (we may need to add a sed > * statement to replace all .'s to \.'s, but that shouldn't be a problem.) > > Think packages.... I don't really think it'd make a difference - when you build your package, your dependency is on the _packages_ installed, not the libraries. During the package-building process, considering the way it's done, you'll start with an empty PREFIX, and populate it with dependencies, which'll always be the "better" library. Mere mortals are not likely to be concerned - if they're following packages, they'll have to install the depending new library anyway, due to package dependencies. Ports people only might gain something. Not that I'm really prepared to stand for this one - I see minimal, if any use for it - I was just trying to think how the fellow could achieve what he asked. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message