From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 16:41:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9693816A4CE; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:41:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from miffy.openlook.org (openlook.org [211.236.182.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E16C43D39; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:41:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from perky@miffy.openlook.org) Received: by miffy.openlook.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3BEAEA9CF; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:41:41 +0900 (KST) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:41:41 +0900 From: Hye-Shik Chang To: Michael Nottebrock Message-ID: <20040629164141.GA86948@i18n.org> References: <40E0F356.8030603@earthlink.net> <20040629081435.GA4372@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200406291817.09503.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406291817.09503.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Accept-Language: ko, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org cc: Matthew Seaman cc: Bob Melson cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org cc: perky@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A question about dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:41:42 -0000 --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--