Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:44:32 +0100 From: "Alexey Shuvaev" <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libX11 dependencies Message-ID: <20090127144432.GA14200@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> In-Reply-To: <COL113-W15630D5A8F98DE029BD94AF6CB0@phx.gbl> References: <COL113-W15630D5A8F98DE029BD94AF6CB0@phx.gbl>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:35:12AM +0000, Andrew Hotlab wrote: > > I'm so sorry to annoy you with a question that might be stupid, > but I'm not yet > very experienced in managing software on the FreeBSD platform. > > During my weekly ports maintainance (I'm using the ports-mgmt/portmaster) > I've noticed that the www/drupal port seems to require the lang/python25 now, > and this dependency is due to the latest x11/libX11 version, which wants > x11/xcb-proto and x11/libxcb ports, which bring me lang/python25. > Since I read that the "XCB option" should have been removed from r1.8 of the > pkg-plist file > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/libX11/pkg-plist), > I'm wondering if such dependency is still really needed. > That was an option, now it is mandatory. So you can't avoid lang/python25 :) > Thanks you very much for your invaluable commitment in maintaing this > great operating system! >
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