From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 14 1:28:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.bby.com.au (ns.bby.com.au [192.83.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF6A15007 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 01:28:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by fw.bby.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) id SAA18384 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:27:50 +1000 (EST) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au(192.168.71.20) via SMTP by fw.bby.com.au, id smtpd018380; Wed Jul 14 08:27:42 1999 Received: from lightning (lightning [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA05979; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:27:42 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199907140827.SAA05979@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape pkg silently requires compat22 In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 14 Jul 1999 01:18:26 -0700. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:27:41 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG chad@DCFinc.com said: > Does anyone have a contact at Netscape? They should post both a a.out > and an elf binary, if they're gonna play the game. Or more generally, we need a way to express this (and similar) dependencies in the package format. I had a bit of a fossick around and AFAICT a package can depend on other ports/packages, but not on optional parts of the "base" system. Hmm, how do packages deal with dependencies on X? Or is this the same problem again? Is this even worth solving while we wait for Jordan's mythical all-singing all-dancing module system? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message