Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:30:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, roberthuff@rcn.com Subject: Re: anybody know about a 3.01 package *With* browser? Message-ID: <200904061530.n36FUTqV050438@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <18906.3786.490993.59702@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote: > Oliver Fromme writes: > > > > > I'm not sure why there's so much depenencies, but if anyone wants > > > > me to post it, I want to know. > > > > > > Because OOo declines to re-invent the wheel? Some of these are > > > easy to understand if you know almost nothing about programming - > > > the fonts for example. Others, like cairo, pango, expat, and CUPS, > > > are established libraries for dealing with things like text > > > input/rendering, graphics, and printing. "gtk" is the GUI tookkit. > > > What I don't understand is things like pciids-20090224. > > > > It's required by hal. About half of the dependencies seem > > to be Xorg-related things (fonts, libraries, protocols). > > There are also dependencies for supporting various graphics > > formats (png, jpeg, tiff) and scripting languages (python, > > perl). Well, it all adds up. > > So it's not just things that OO depends on directly, but things > those programs depend on, /ad incipio/. That's ... confusing. Well, package dependency is a transitive relation (in fact, it's even a transitive closure). So if you ask for the list of dependencies for a package, you'll get a list of _all_ packages required to run it, which also includes indirect dependencies, because these are required, too, of course. I don't think it's confusing. It would be confusig if it worked in a different way. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker" -- Daniel C. Sobral
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