Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 20:22:00 +0200 From: Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <3F54DFC8.3020308@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20030902083525.GA89347@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20030901132021.F11735@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> <200309011938.h81JcYF14647@thistle.bogs.org> <20030902083525.GA89347@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0700, Greg Shenaut wrote: > >>Has it ever been suggested to create one or more "dependencies" >>ports (or more to the point, packages)? I think it might be pretty >>useful to have something like that so that all of the "prerequisites" >>can be installed at once. > > > Maybe I'm missing something but how would that be an improvement on > what FreeBSD does now? If I try to install package X, it will > automatically install dependencies A, B and C, as well as their > dependencies. What I hate somehow is the proliferation of "scripting plugin interfaces" which are optional in the src bunch but are not opt-in switches in the actual packages. One example can be vim sucking in perl ruby python and what a not. Esp. annoying is the pyhon stuff visible in libxml2 and libxslt - not usefull at all. One measure to controll this is under FreeBSD to place the following inside /etc/make.conf: # Kerberes. What the heck I never saw this in use. NO_KERBEROS=yes # My own site specific additions: WITH_MOTIF= true WITHOUT_PYTHON= true WITHOUT_RUBY= true # Options for openoffice-pl: WITH_BSD_JDK=TRUE WITH_TTF_BYTECODE_ENABLED=YES WITH_GIF_LZW_COMPRESSION=YES # Options for Java NATIVE_BOOTSTRAP=yes Howver I strongly think that the WITHOYUT_PYTHON and WITHOUT_RUBY items at least should be the defaults.
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