Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:37:33 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Michael Nottebrock" <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: perky@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about dependencies Message-ID: <opsac64vvs9aq2h7@mezz> 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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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:17:09 +0200, Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> 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, >> so A >> > and B are shown to depend on it; this still seems to me to be a >> problem. >> >> 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=yes' 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 > dependencies recorded - it seems libxml and libxslt do not have a runtime > dependency on python, just a buildtime dependency to build python > bindings. > However, USE_PYTHON can either record both run & buildtime dependencies > none > - perhaps another knob is needed here. Comments? It will install the *.py files if Python enable, so I disagree with this. But, I don't understand what you mean by 'perhaps another knob is needed here'. WITHOUT_PYTHON knob isn't good enough? Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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