Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:43:02 -0300 From: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, ports@freebsd.org, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Subject: Re: what is gio-fam? Message-ID: <20080415114302.7def3e2a.rnsanchez@wait4.org> In-Reply-To: <200804151003.18644.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> References: <20080414214750.699014501A@ptavv.es.net> <200804141843.22770.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> <20080415095514.ef3e6e2b.rnsanchez@wait4.org> <200804151003.18644.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:03:18 -0400 Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> wrote: > вівторок 15 квітень 2008 08:55 до, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez Ви написали: > > Not quite. I also faced this, but was lucky to discover in time (not > > closing any open app) where this dependency was coming from. The only port > > I had to update was glib, a couple of times, and gio-fam was finally built. > > > This was instinctive, but worked. > > "A couple of times"? Congratulations... Thanks. > > One should not need this luck, nor this instinct, however. It wasn't luck, I usually upgrade a few ports before launching a bunch of upgrades. Glib build broke during some other port upgrade, and I checked what happened. Updated its dependencies, itself forcibly, and then resumed the other port. > > Until I decide to upgrade gnome, all other gnome-using ports should be content > with the version of gnome I already have... > > This is all patently obvious, I might add. The automatic gio-fam dependency > should be made smarter and/or optional (depending on which gnome is already > installed). > > Going forward, one hopes, gnome-team will not be so cavalier in forcing > upgrades... How about working with the gnome-team instead of blaming them? I'd bet that if you had to upgrade Gnome by hand, you would be using KDE or something else. Shouting at gnome-team won't help at all. -- Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez rnsanchez@wait4.org http://rnsanchez.wait4.org "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse."
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