Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:51:02 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Paul Richards <paul@FreeBSD-Services.co.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_update Message-ID: <3A8AC586.EC52A123@mitre.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102080152030.58657-100000@arnold.neland.dk> <20010207202335.C20454@peorth.iteration.net> <20010208232645.A86390@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <00c501c092ec$678e73a0$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> <3A8A9FD6.B91CE40E@FreeBSD-Services.co.uk> <20010214093832.B72511@mollari.cthul.hu>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:10:14PM +0000, Paul Richards wrote: > > Leif Neland wrote: > > The problem is that 'make install' in a port doesn't check dependencies > > properly, whereas pkg_install does. > > Is this really true? There are even bsd.port.mk targets you can use to > obtain the list of dependencies. I've never had trouble with my ports dependancies. Heck, one of the first things I do when installing on a new desktop machine is install the Gimp port, since that will get the GTK libraries and a huge pile of graphics libraries. Usually I install apsfilter too, even if there isn't a printer attached to the system, simply because that get almost all of the common text processing utilites. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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