Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:41:41 +0900 From: Hye-Shik Chang <perky@i18n.org> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: perky@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A question about dependencies Message-ID: <20040629164141.GA86948@i18n.org> In-Reply-To: <200406291817.09503.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <40E0F356.8030603@earthlink.net> <20040629081435.GA4372@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200406291817.09503.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:17:09PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > 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, s= o A > > > and B are shown to depend on it; this still seems to me to be a prob= lem. > > > > 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. >=20 > 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 binding= s.=20 > However, USE_PYTHON can either record both run & buildtime dependencies n= one=20 > - perhaps another knob is needed here. Comments? >=20 Without runtime depencency, they will need some treatments to remove python site packages directory ($PREFIX/lib/python2.3/site-packages). I see that splitting python ports out from libxml2 and libxslt port would be better than that. Hye-Shik --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA4ZvEDWUsWc/bS6QRAg4TAJ0WdPey7BVDbZSRjfNwAFUhtA2gUwCgy1GZ Fns0zRdDD9P5NBz0gzRtT34= =UA4z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--
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