Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:04:38 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Hans Ottevanger <hans.ottevanger@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Superfluous dependencies Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103100802050.50392@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=j7fR%2BRm4Fy14Q_KPDyE%2B7%2BO_d3pd3Yaek=kJG@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTik65O3gbUoVBM-YbjWu0dpq0OuNn2KoUaC5b5ov@mail.gmail.com> <4D76426A.2010006@secnap.com> <AANLkTi=j7fR%2BRm4Fy14Q_KPDyE%2B7%2BO_d3pd3Yaek=kJG@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > Indeed I see this 'shortcut' being used all over the place. But in the > cases I have looked into the last few days, i.e. the xorg-7.5.1 and > kde-lite-3.5.10_8 ports, the problem is just a trivial, but slightly > different. It appears that in many occasions USE_PYTHON and USE_PERL > are specified in situations where I think USE_PYTHON_BUILD and > USE_PERL_BUILD, respectively, would suffice. > > By making a few trivial changes i can make xorg-7.5.1 fully > independent on run-time of Python, Perl and Bison. The same can be > done for kde-lite-3.5.10_8 when I also disable the Perl support in > net-snmp, which is a dependency of kdeutils-3.5.10_8. > > If anybody is interested I could consolidate my results and post a few patches. Anything that makes ports more accurate is good. Please post, and the maintainers of those ports would likely be interested also.
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