From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 29 16:41:29 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5912562D for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netplex.net (mail.netplex.net [204.213.176.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.netplex.net", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA - G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06D0E924 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:41:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) by mail.netplex.net (8.15.1/8.15.1/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id t2TGfL9U048628 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:41:21 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.netplex.net) X-Greylist: Message whitelisted by DRAC access database, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mail.netplex.net [204.213.176.9]); Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:41:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:41:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net Reply-To: Daniel Eischen To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: USES vs BUILD_DEPENDS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:41:29 -0000 I have a port which needs pod2man just to build the man file during installation. Why do I need USES= pod2man:perl5 just to build the port? It doesn't seem feasible to use BUILD_DEPENDS because there is no generic perl5 port. -- DE