Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:03:50 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering Message-ID: <4754C396.3060007@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <op.t2sivct29aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <BDFE616B01457E0B71D9FD2F@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <47547FEE.9040405@gmail.com> <CF7CA160EBCB18FB5A6E7ECB@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <475489E4.2050704@gmail.com> <20071204014805.24d2f25f@gumby.homeunix.com.> <bef9a7920712031823l6692a0b8s4dfba7096339388e@mail.gmail.com> <op.t2sivct29aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:23:20 -0600, Aryeh Friedman > <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> >>> >>> 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. >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> btw xdm is not the worst offender for example if you install abiword >> after installing gnome it will not start but if you install it before >> hand then install gnome no issue > > Have you report this to gnome@FreeBSD.org yet? The abiword port will > enable with GNOME option by default if GNOME exists in system, but > you can avoid that by use WITHOUT_GNOME=yes. You want to rewrite > ports system because of this? > It was one of several examples... jesus how I wish I could post some of the private replies I got so people could see the amount of frustration out there with the current system but that would color other replies so I will wait until I don't get any new survey replies for 24 hrs then I will post a summary and verbatum the ones the orginal authors let me do this with. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHVMOW358R5LPuPvsRAg9zAJ0W8m1qTLp7lQ22G78oJS8DSgrr7wCdHgsA fGrYY61Uq9pWI5dg0dIFqzg= =57V5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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