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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: Dependencies 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 1995 01:14:22 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 01:24:29 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Sorry, I wasn't clear.  I meant, "we don't know it the user installed
> the dependency (via pkg_add | the ports)".

Yes, it's always possible for the user to "sneak it in" through some
manual process, but maybe we SHOULD start relying on pkg_info anyway!

Totally Contrived Example: I need foomake v3.51 in order to compile
/usr/ports/games/galacticGenocide and it lives in /usr/local/bin/foomake.
HOWEVER, foomake v3.50 had a bad bug that makes it fall over with
galacticGenocide's makefile, so it's not enough to simply check that
/usr/local/bin/foomake is there, it has to be the correct version of it.

With the current scheme, you're screwed.  With a pkg_info reliant scheme,
`pkg_info -e foomake3_50' will do the right thing.

						Jordan