From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 20 21:55:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C9F16A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:55:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB6B43D2F for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:55:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (c-24-130-110-32.we.client2.attbi.com[24.130.110.32]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20050320215509014004v7aje>; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:55:09 +0000 Message-ID: <423DF18E.2000707@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:56:30 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.1 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Florian Hars cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/78944: htdig depends on a very specific apache X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:55:10 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Florian Hars wrote: > > >>I tried to install the package, and it did indeed require this and >>only this version of apache, although it doesn't even need any >>apache at all. >>This is a serious design error of the ports/packages system. > > > No, this is an error in an individual port. Please contact the > maintainer to ask why the dependency is there. If the maintainer > does not reply, please file a PR about it. Earlier in this thread it was indicated that the user did file a PR, and I did respond. The user doesn't feel that the apache dependency is needed, I (and long experience) disagree. The user is free to install htdig without apache, or with a different style of apache, as he sees fit. Case closed, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection