From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 1 16:38:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA06255 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 16:38:25 -0700 Received: from chemserv.umd.edu (chemserv.umd.edu [129.2.64.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA06249 ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 16:38:22 -0700 Received: from latte.eng.umd.edu (latte.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.15]) by chemserv.umd.edu (8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id TAA19751; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 19:00:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by latte.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.6.4) id TAA09143; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 19:38:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 19:38:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: me@freefall.freebsd.org, ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: xemacs In-Reply-To: <24299.812581557@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > A couple of months ago I whined about not being able to use the web > browser in xemacs - the pictures weren't being inlined properly. > > Michael aquainted me with the fact that pbmplus needs to be installed > before this works, and I wondered at the time why we didn't just place > pbmplus in the EXEC_DEPENDS or something. Then I got side-tracked > and forgot all about it until now, when I notice that the state of > affairs remains unchanged WRT xemacs. Thoughts? The uses of exec depends was discussed a little while ago, because your example of xemacs/pbmplus represents just one of many applications that have their usefulness multiplied, by having a particular crew of, let me call it 'co-applications', resident with it. The choice at the time was that this would make exec-depends too picky. Like having the xemacs port fail because the pbmplus source wasn't resident. My own opinion is this should go in the descriptions, too many of which are 'way to lean on info. > > Jordan > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------