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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: xfig and transfig 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 Aug 1995 04:23:23 +0200."
             <95Aug12.192334pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> 
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 22:41:24 +0200
From: "Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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> Ok, then there should be some other place to list "maximal functionality"
> dependencies.

Yes, perhaps we should have a 
	BELLS_AND_WHISTLES_HINTS +=
capability,
as well as the existing
	EXEC_DEPENDS +=
Satoshi's the guy to convince on that.

> But from the point of view of a user
> who just wants stuff to work, there should at least have been some warning
> when I pkg_install'd xfig that I needed transfig as well to get the full
> functionality. 

Well, in fact, it all comes down to whoever writes the individual ports 
Makefiles, if they chooses to specify things to sniff &probe for.
I suggest you provide a diff -c patch for the Makefile, & send it to the
MAINTAINER= person listed in the xfig Makefile.

But please do it as an 
.if ! exists
	echo Suggest you install foobar,

rather than a EXEC_DEPENDS

Julian S