From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 16:17:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB4616A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:17:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1A2243D2F for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:17:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 15538 invoked by uid 65534); 29 Jun 2004 16:17:12 -0000 Received: from pD9FFDCD6.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO kiste.my.domain) (217.255.220.214) by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 29 Jun 2004 18:17:12 +0200 X-Authenticated: #443188 From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:17:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <40E0F356.8030603@earthlink.net> <20040629081435.GA4372@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040629081435.GA4372@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_FYZ4Ar8guZ/0dOG"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406291817.09503.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org cc: perky@FreeBSD.org cc: Bob Melson Subject: Re: A question about dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:17:22 -0000 --Boundary-02=_FYZ4Ar8guZ/0dOG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 29 June 2004 10:14, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:43:02PM -0600, Bob Melson wrote: > > Briefly, I discovered on my system some 124 ports of 600+ that show > > python as a requirement. Granted that many are probably cascading > > requirements: A requires B which requires C which requires python, so A > > and B are shown to depend on it; this still seems to me to be a proble= m. > > Actually, there are just two ports that directly depend on python, and > through which the majority of those other ports you mention inherit > their python dependence. Those ports are: > > textproc/libxml2 > textproc/libxslt > > both of which are important parts of the Gnome environment. > > If you don't want python installed on your system, then there's a > simple solution. Set 'WITHOUT_PYTHON=3Dyes' in /etc/make.conf and > reinstall all of the ports that depend from those two. In the special case of python, I would agree that there are unnecessary=20 dependencies recorded - it seems libxml and libxslt do not have a runtime=20 dependency on python, just a buildtime dependency to build python bindings.= =20 However, USE_PYTHON can either record both run & buildtime dependencies non= e=20 =2D perhaps another knob is needed here. Comments? =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --Boundary-02=_FYZ4Ar8guZ/0dOG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBA4ZYFXhc68WspdLARAo1nAJ9XQGQ6uO8V6cbQvcNmcNsvH25caACfQysy WLM+TQpvGYC7UfqkUrNnNPc= =e5f3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_FYZ4Ar8guZ/0dOG--