Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 18:28:00 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Koop Mast <kwm@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grandfather dependencies completely out of control Message-ID: <4BDDFC70.1040609@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4BDDEC67.7090808@FreeBSD.org> References: <4BDD1728.8080903@FreeBSD.org> <1272795699.58527.26.camel@headache.rainbow-runner.nl> <4BDDEC67.7090808@FreeBSD.org>
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On 5/2/10 5:19 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 05/02/10 03:21, Koop Mast wrote: >> One of the scripts provided by devel/glib20 is a perl script. That is the reason why >> we need perl. > > Thanks for the response, couple things come to mind. First, how many > things actually make use of those perl/python scripts? If the number is > small they should probably be OPTIONS that default to off, or slave > ports as Thomas suggested. The script (glib-mkenums) is actually very important to almost all ports which depend on glib. Yes, what Thomas suggested could be done with some considerable work. What might be better is to have someone versed in shell scripting translate this script to sh. I think the GNOME guys would be fine to accept that. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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