From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 14 9:50:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1310937B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00296 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:50:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10521 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:50:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G8RDJX00.3Q2; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:50:21 -0500 Message-ID: <3A8AC586.EC52A123@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:51:02 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Paul Richards , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_update References: <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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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