From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 1 10:41:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F74E3E80 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:41:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA89727; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 13:40:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 13:40:50 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Will Andrews Cc: Dan Langille , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: skip requires X? In-Reply-To: <20000201125152.D373@argon.blackdawn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:42:07PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > > What about gd? It's a graphics library, which is totally justified in > > having a dependency on a graphics output device (X). > > gd produces images. Whether or not the images go to a file or to a monitor > shouldn't matter. The Apache ports have gd as an optional dependency. > However, gd is used in this case to produce graphics to show on the > webserver, not to show on the local machine's monitor. We have *many* ports that have dependencies added above the minimum, because they add more usefulness. Example is the kde* ports which all use sound, and so have sound ports as dependencies. Trying to say that a graphics port like gd isn't *well* justified in adding dependencies like a graphics output device is ludicrous. What you're complaining about is that *any* port adds any dependencies above the absolute minimum. That's an entirely different topic, and one you'd lose on. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message