From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 14:42:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7225516A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:42:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41114.mail.yahoo.com (web41114.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F97A43D1D for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:42:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmkatcher@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040701144130.24607.qmail@web41114.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.18.54.216] by web41114.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:41:30 PDT Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:41:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeffrey Katcher To: ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Packages with Absurd Dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:42:18 -0000 Why, for example, do the Mozilla packages force one to install Python? And when I went to forcibly delete it afterwards, it claimed that it was required by libxml2, gtk-2.43, etc. That's totally insane. While I like package convenience, it's this sort of thing that keeps me from using them except for things like browsers that are a pain to build. What's next? Requiring me to install (spit) Mono as a dependency for Nethack? Jeff Katcher