Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:03:26 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependancy hell, post linux_base-8 conversion Message-ID: <20050117160326.GB82799@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050117123600.4eab233c@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <20050116034626.GA24533@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050116120034.1bad2a84@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050116212651.GA58620@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050117123600.4eab233c@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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In the last episode (Jan 17), Alexander Leidinger said: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:26:51 -0800 "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > This is the dependency list of our native xorg-libraries port: > > ..snip.. > > > Does this answer your question? > > > > Not sure if you're trying to say "YES, we like it." > > The X11 libs depend upon the expat and fontconfig libs. So yes, we > like to specify the dependencies. You expect to be able to use > acroread when you install it, aren't you? [...] > We depend on expat and fontconfig in our X11 libs because they need > them at run time (lib depends). For linux this is the case too. So > why should we not let the linux X11 libs depend upon them? > > The alternative is to add implicit dependencies to all other ports. > We don't do this for our FreeBSD ports (most of the time), so why > should we do it in the linux ports? But is this a slippery slope where at some point we will have a linux-* rpm "port" for every rpm installed? Why not just pull the expat, fontconfig, etc rpms into linux_base? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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