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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:14:14 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
Cc:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: dependency question
Message-ID:  <3C4BE9F6.A85C98B5@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20020120205118.GA447@gforce.johnson.home> <1011565282.28534.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020120234902.GA74865@gforce.johnson.home> <1011573437.28534.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020121011015.GA20453@gforce.johnson.home> <1011575865.28534.39.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020121031843.GA23586@gforce.johnson.home>

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Glenn Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:17:45PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 20:10, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > OK, I think I may have confused myself.  I edited my Makefile and
> > > removed all dependencies but left USE_GNOME in then did a 'make
> > > clean'.  My thought was that this would tell me what ports were
> > > being pulled in when USE_GNOME is set by looking at the 'cleaning
> > > list'.  When I do this, bonobo, and of course gnomeprint, get
> > > listed.  Does this mean that all I need is USE_GNOME or am I missing
> > > something here?
> >
> > Doh!  You're right.  USE_GNOME requires gnomecore which requires
> > gtkhtml which requires gal which requires libglade, which requires
> > gnomedb, which requires libgda, which requires bonobob, which requires
> > gnomeprint....
> >
> > Worse than Kevin Bacon.  Sorry for the confusion.  Yes, USE_GNOME
> > should be all you need.  Tracing these dependencies can get tricky.
> 
> Yes, very confusing, but do not apologize though. You helped to clear it
> up for me.  The purpose of my initial e-mail was because I was already
> confused by the dependencies but I think I have a handle on it now.

When you are unsure about what dependencies does the port have you
could do `make package-depends' in port's directory and it will print
them all to stdout. Simple as that...

-Maxim

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