From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 24 17:44:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CBA516A41A for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:44:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp3.utdallas.edu (smtp3.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059B813C4D1 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:44:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (unknown [24.175.90.48]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp3.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B8B654F2; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:44:46 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:44:47 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <476FC0D3.2090106@icyb.net.ua> References: <476FC0D3.2090106@icyb.net.ua> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: (Very) bogus package dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:44:47 -0000 --On December 24, 2007 4:23:15 PM +0200 Andriy Gapon wrote: > > And a practical thought: it seems that in recent FreeBSD versions system > tar can work rather well with the ISO CD9660 FS, so it should be enough > to list directories in an image. What I am trying to say: before adding > a dependency examine your options and choose the best one. In principle that is good practice, but how many port maintainers are knowledgeable enough of programming to make those choices? I suspect quite a few are but not all. I'm certainly not. Perhaps this is an issue that the committers would be more suited to address? (I get the impression that most, if not all, of them are programmers or at least very knowledgeable of programming.) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/