From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 17:38:32 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 F3C3516A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:38:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0178E43D45 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:38:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 3210 invoked by uid 65534); 13 Nov 2004 17:38:29 -0000 Received: from pD9E2460F.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO lofi.dyndns.org) (217.226.70.15) by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 13 Nov 2004 18:38:29 +0100 X-Authenticated: #443188 Received: from [192.168.8.4] (lofi@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iADHcFbp046417 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:38:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Message-ID: <41964683.70804@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:38:11 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Andres Mejias Subject: Re: portupgrade problem 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: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:38:32 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: > Since we've never told porters that they can't cross-depend on > categories, Not sure I get you right here. Are you saying we should forbid for a port in category a to depend on a port in category b? That doesn't seem to make much sense. > we can't really fuss at them for having done so. Again, > I personally consider it a bug that japenese is depended on, I'd say it depends on the application and why the dependency is needed. FWIW, the fact that INDEX building with incomplete portstrees is not supported stands. Now that the cvsup-supplied indices are gone, more people will become aware of that fact (or the fetchindex target :), that's all. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org