From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 11:36:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC541065675 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:36:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45DEE8FC16 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 25so196679eya.9 for ; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:36:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lgLqYmnTUt1oQOfSBOOtJFPJILPLTxFp740KG/VzlYc=; b=O2XuFcWRx7QjSpnAWohEm/CcmmbxpPTp6IqgTPp7NFTVCJJtgp4yORx2t6l9Rc2kUR WMGfMKqz7whcVnUDDhIdP51HcbcIi1pXuBSFSJNXLCKPZGC6eqVdhbvbFTDdib62QRqf 1x1OfONlpP7ZiqBoL+ReT3TYUa3NCjY+VI2IM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BeZUTLtideCa++zEPt0sXL21J3sk4iLALdsxTl9Y9CdZicmvP3uQ5/K94atlrnulrt NGrW6j8NS23BMvgGp9mZQCPlTTl80OegiGmia23T+SZYCw3booao0o1kBKaznUD66MSu ENQxSun26+j+xEddM8JqrXqjVggufyBvbTffU= Received: by 10.213.29.203 with SMTP id r11mr1273076ebc.33.1275996996925; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm3276992ewy.7.2010.06.08.04.36.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:36:33 +0100 From: RW To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100608123633.0804917b@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4C0D26A5.0@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4C0C34FC.4030603@gibfest.dk> <4C0C3A5B.8010707@missouri.edu> <4C0C3D5F.2070204@FreeBSD.org> <4C0C403B.4000005@missouri.edu> <4C0C4306.205@FreeBSD.org> <4C0C43A3.6050100@missouri.edu> <4C0C4709.5000504@missouri.edu> <4C0CA591.20307@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100607173439.7e9484d7@gumby.homeunix.com> <4C0D26A5.0@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Manually registering dependencies for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:36:38 -0000 On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:04:37 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/06/2010 17:34:39, RW wrote: > > If it's a metaport then it does have an origin. > > It certainly needs an origin if some other port is going to depend on > it. Which is usually the case for metaports, but not necessarily so. A metaport is a port and has an origin by definition. What you are referring to is a metapackage.