From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 6 15:30:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9785710656D8 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:30:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F7F8FC24 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:30:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n36FUTbd050439; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:30:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n36FUTqV050438; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:30:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:30:29 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200904061530.n36FUTqV050438@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, roberthuff@rcn.com In-Reply-To: <18906.3786.490993.59702@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:30:53 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: anybody know about a 3.01 package *With* browser? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, roberthuff@rcn.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:30:55 -0000 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