Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:00:34 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Cc: obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependancy hell, post linux_base-8 conversion Message-ID: <20050116120034.1bad2a84@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20050116034626.GA24533@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050116034626.GA24533@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:46:26 -0800
"David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Now that we've changed from linux_base[-rh7] to linux_base-8 as the
> default linux base we've entered dependency hell. :-(
>
> Previously print/acroread[5] depended only on linux_base.
> Now acroread depends on x11/linux-XFree86-libs, which depends on
> x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig, which depends on textproc/linux-expat, which
> finally depends on linux_base-8.
>
> Is this really what we want to do? Go from a single complete and
> comprehensive dependency to four?
This is the dependency list of our native xorg-libraries port:
---snip---
% make all-depends-list
/usr/ports/converters/libiconv
/usr/ports/devel/gettext
/usr/ports/devel/gmake
/usr/ports/devel/imake-6
/usr/ports/devel/libtool13
/usr/ports/devel/libtool15
/usr/ports/devel/pkgconfig
/usr/ports/lang/perl5
/usr/ports/print/freetype2
/usr/ports/textproc/expat2
/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig
---snip---
The dependencies for our native XFree86-4-libraries look like:
---snip---
% make all-depends-list
/usr/ports/converters/libiconv
/usr/ports/devel/gettext
/usr/ports/devel/gmake
/usr/ports/devel/imake-6
/usr/ports/devel/libtool13
/usr/ports/devel/libtool15
/usr/ports/devel/pkgconfig
/usr/ports/lang/perl5
/usr/ports/print/freetype2
/usr/ports/textproc/expat2
/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig
---snip---
Does this answer your question?
Bye,
Alexander.
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