Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:35:28 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome install in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <42F7B400.8060501@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: <20050808091818.D6F161D8FE@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com> References: <20050808091818.D6F161D8FE@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6EB47F7F1CC16E4BF9787CCE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > But when my eyes turns to Gnome, I am really scared by its components > and dependencies. At this point, I am willing to install it from > ports. > > However, there is a problem: all my previous softwares were installed > manually, could ports check it out to avoid install some dependencies > (like GTK+) twice? Yes and no. The ports checks their dependencies by looking for files installed by other ports. If you installed all your software in the same place that the ports would have installed them (ie, /usr/local for most, /usr/X11R6 for some), the gnome ports will not rebuild that software. Of course, it'll just record that dependency port as installed even though it isn't, which might give you problems later on. Cheers Benjamin --------------enig6EB47F7F1CC16E4BF9787CCE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFC97QBgShs4qbRdeQRAlaxAJ0fWCpDCCsAzHL9h3ZvB1hvXDeQiQCfSb2V wdVViFLP/aX6eqeQNTxzbsE= =jqLF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6EB47F7F1CC16E4BF9787CCE--
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