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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:18:43 -0600
From:      Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
To:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dependency question
Message-ID:  <20020121031843.GA23586@gforce.johnson.home>
In-Reply-To: <1011575865.28534.39.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20020120205118.GA447@gforce.johnson.home> <1011565282.28534.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020120234902.GA74865@gforce.johnson.home> <1011573437.28534.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020121011015.GA20453@gforce.johnson.home> <1011575865.28534.39.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:17:45PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 20:10, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > OK, I think I may have confused myself.  I edited my Makefile and
> > removed all dependencies but left USE_GNOME in then did a 'make
> > clean'.  My thought was that this would tell me what ports were
> > being pulled in when USE_GNOME is set by looking at the 'cleaning
> > list'.  When I do this, bonobo, and of course gnomeprint, get
> > listed.  Does this mean that all I need is USE_GNOME or am I missing
> > something here?
>
> Doh!  You're right.  USE_GNOME requires gnomecore which requires
> gtkhtml which requires gal which requires libglade, which requires
> gnomedb, which requires libgda, which requires bonobob, which requires
> gnomeprint....
>
> Worse than Kevin Bacon.  Sorry for the confusion.  Yes, USE_GNOME
> should be all you need.  Tracing these dependencies can get tricky.

Yes, very confusing, but do not apologize though. You helped to clear it
up for me.  The purpose of my initial e-mail was because I was already
confused by the dependencies but I think I have a handle on it now.

Thanks.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj@charter.net

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