From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Jun 29 05:44:28 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 A47D616A4CE
	for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:44:28 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (mproxy.gmail.com [216.239.56.246])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7691743D45
	for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:44:28 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from roop.nanuwa@gmail.com)
Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id w29so456483cwb
        for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:44:28 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.11.118.73 with SMTP id q73mr1552228cwc;
        Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:44:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <75f3f7050406282244490b340a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:44:28 -0700
From: Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com>
To: Bob Melson <melsonr@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <40E0F356.8030603@earthlink.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <40E0F356.8030603@earthlink.net>
cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: A question about dependencies
X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:44:28 -0000

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:43:02 -0600, Bob Melson <melsonr@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Briefly, I discovered on my system some 124 ports of 600+ that show
> python as a requirement.  Granted that many are probably cascading
> requirements:  A requires B which requires C which requires python, so A
> and B are shown  to depend on it; this still seems to me to be a problem.

Why is it a problem? I'm not quite sure why you see depending on
python is an issue versus requiring cc (gcc). Code needs to be
compiled or run, one way or another. 

> Still, if this business with the python dependencies is any indicator,
> the system could be improved, although I'm unable to say how.
> 

Again, pardon my ignorance, why are python dependencies an
indicator of a need for improvement? Maybe I'm missing something
obvious but I don't see the relation.

--roop