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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:00:04 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile
Message-ID:  <20010309170004.Q412@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <200103082328.f28NSLI06914@harmony.village.org>
References:  <20010308030217.P31752@elvis.mu.org> <20010308015237.O31752@elvis.mu.org> <200103080830.f288UVR63950@gratis.grondar.za> <20010308030217.P31752@elvis.mu.org> <200103082328.f28NSLI06914@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> wrote:
>
>Also, XFree86 is also very special when it comes to ports.  It is
>almost impossible to make X11 ports depend on a different port for
>X11.  There are many different places where it is hard coded or
>semi-hard coded.

This is a good example of where the pkg system needs something like
the Debian "provides" concept, where you can have a variety of
different packages that provide X or an MTA or some other system
service with a variety of implementations.

Tony.
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