From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 4 02:17:00 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F1F16A419 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 02:17:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+Q3=f7874b6b@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B57413C46E for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 02:16:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+Q3=f7874b6b@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-04.mxes.net (mxout-04.mxes.net [216.86.168.179]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BE3163F86 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:48:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6EECD0501 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:48:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:48:05 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071204014805.24d2f25f@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <475489E4.2050704@gmail.com> References: <47547FEE.9040405@gmail.com> <475489E4.2050704@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:17:00 -0000 On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:57:40 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" wrote: > Actually what see is a signficant difference in the way the banner is > displayed and no I will not change the rules becuase the root issue is > xdm-banner is only installed if you make the metaport with nothing > else installed I'm a little sceptical that it's installed by anything: $ find /usr/ports/ -iname Makefile |xargs grep -i "xbanner" |grep -Ev "^/usr/ports/x11/xbanner/" /usr/ports/x11/Makefile: SUBDIR += xbanner Having said that dependencies often do depend on the order the leaves are installed, because some ports will use alternate dependencies according to what's already there. It makes things a lot easier to maintain.