From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 24 18:13:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A39F16A421 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:13:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp3.utdallas.edu (smtp3.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC89213C43E for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:13:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (unknown [24.175.90.48]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp3.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B8B654F2; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:44:46 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:44:47 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <476FC0D3.2090106@icyb.net.ua> References: <476FC0D3.2090106@icyb.net.ua> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: (Very) bogus package dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:13:13 -0000 --On December 24, 2007 4:23:15 PM +0200 Andriy Gapon wrote: > > And a practical thought: it seems that in recent FreeBSD versions system > tar can work rather well with the ISO CD9660 FS, so it should be enough > to list directories in an image. What I am trying to say: before adding > a dependency examine your options and choose the best one. In principle that is good practice, but how many port maintainers are knowledgeable enough of programming to make those choices? I suspect quite a few are but not all. I'm certainly not. Perhaps this is an issue that the committers would be more suited to address? (I get the impression that most, if not all, of them are programmers or at least very knowledgeable of programming.) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/