Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 21:28:29 -0500 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os Message-ID: <199904090228.VAA78206@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904082148190.378-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904082148190.378-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On 8 April 1999 at 21:54, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> wrote: [snip] > You would have the same kind of problems with most stuff that uses imake > to build. No, honestly, that's not a fix. oh well. [snip] > > Do > > you really think that if one removes, say, ports/audio/replay, that no > > one will miss it? > > Not one user will complain if he loses neat-widget42, as long as there > is a neat-widget. No one except a very small number of developers (who > know perfectly well how to do this for themselves) wants or needs > multiple concurrent versions on their machines, especially at the > horrendous cost to everyone else. I don't mean the library ports themselves... I mean the ports that depend upon old versions of the libraries. e.g. ports/audio/replay currently depends upon gtk11-devel. I'm sure some of these may be fixable by the maintainer, but of the 34 that depend on old GTK libs, I guarantee that some cannot be rewritten to use a new version of GTK trivially. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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