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Date:      Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:55:03 -0800
From:      Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Excessive dependancies for OpenOffice 2.0 port
Message-ID:  <A8ECC5CB-F8F6-4726-9E16-39CE89FAD8E5@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051115233606.GD886@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Nov 15, 2005, at 15:36 , Brooks Davis wrote:
> Changing dependencies based on currently installed things is an
> incredibly stupid idea and should be banned.

Quite so.  I'd love to purge the tree of the relatively large amount of:

.if exists(something)
[add-dependency]
.endif

It's a right royal pain in the arse.

- -aDe

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