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Date:      19 Sep 2002 14:37:55 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [kris@FreeBSD.org: cvs commit: ports/graphics/chbg Makefile]
Message-ID:  <1032460676.332.28.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020919203632.13d85afb.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
References:  <20020919030129.GJ58430@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020919124330.1d776222.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <1032455466.332.8.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20020919193518.537de37b.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <1032457354.332.13.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>  <20020919203632.13d85afb.Alexander@Leidinger.net>

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On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 14:36, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2002 13:42:33 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > > Then this needs at least to be documented in gnome/docs/porting.html
> > > (IMHO this is a bug in GNOMENG, but when you document it, it is at
> > > least a documented behavior).
> > 
> > Why is this a bug?  Why would you add more GNOME components _after_
> > you checked to see if GNOME was installed?  If you want to add GNOME
> > components to the default build, simply add them at the top (on the
> > first USE_GNOME line).  In this case, it isn't necessary since
> > gdkpixbuf implies gtk12 (which is documented in the porting guide).
> 
> Ah! Ok, now I understand it. But it's still a bug (in the
> documentation). As you've seen someone may do it. Have a look how the
> port evolved from my revision 1.8 (no use of USE_GNOME in the non-GNOME
> case) to revision 1.9 which lioux committed to understand how this can
> happen (no, I don't want to blame him, the pointy hat goes to myself
> because I trusted that he DTRT).
> 
> IMO you should add a note that adding components to USE_GNOME after
> including bsd.port.pre.mk results in such behavior.

Good point.  Consider it done.

Joe

> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
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