Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:44:51 +0400 From: Sergey Skvortsov <skv@protey.ru> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> Subject: Re: ports/devel/glib20 and USE_PERL5 Message-ID: <4305E253.60202@protey.ru> In-Reply-To: <1124456933.33954.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20050819130129.GA498@grosbein.pp.ru> <1124456933.33954.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >>Why glib2 depends on perl5 and why all packages depending on glib2 >>inherit runtime dependency on Perl? > > Because glib20 installs Perl scripts, and just about every dependency of > glib20 uses Perl in some way (e.g. ports that use intltool). This scripts can be extracted into separate port glib20-scripts to avoid heivy-weight dependencies for ports which use glib-20.so only (or just compiled with WITHOUT_NLS, or intented to run on nanobsd). In this case USE_PERL5 will be replaced with USE_PERL5_BUILD. -- Sergey Skvortsov mailto: skv@protey.ru
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