Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 10:49:21 +1100 From: Graham Menhennitt <graham@menhennitt.com.au> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dependency explosions Message-ID: <a0d4ab8a-8f2c-55d9-6e1e-b1845cf20b1e@menhennitt.com.au> In-Reply-To: <43d4823b-ef7f-19b6-a065-45ad760ddd41@menhennitt.com.au> References: <trinity-46b750ae-29f6-400c-bc23-2de14c5a034f-1475707085095@msvc-mesg-gmx119> <43d4823b-ef7f-19b6-a065-45ad760ddd41@menhennitt.com.au>
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Sorry, I just read that UPDATING entry again. Cyrus is only provided to=20
Dovecot if Postfix is present. I do not have Postfix present. So, I=20
think that I do need to install Cyrus explicitly.
So, back to my original question, why does "pkg autoremove" want to=20
uninstall Cyrus when I explicitly installed it from the port?
Thanks,
Graham
On 6/10/2016 10:12 AM, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
> Thanks for that, olli.
>
> I didn't understand how I'd missed the fact that Dovecot now included=20
> Cyrus. So I had a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING. Searching for Dovecot=20
> shows a mention of it in the entry at 20160228. However, that's=20
> entitled "AFFECTS: users of mail/postfix", and I don't use Postfix. I=20
> think that Dovecot should have its own entry in UPDATING for that=20
> change too.
>
> Graham
>
> On 6/10/2016 9:38 AM, olli hauer wrote:
>> Postfix in combination with dovecot doesn't require cyrus, since some=20
>> months dovecot support is always provided by postfix.
>> But i"m sorry and cannot expliain why cyrus is installed on your syste=
m
>> --=20
>> send with broken GMX mailer client, sorry for tofu and html scrap
>> On 06/10/2016, 00:29 Graham Menhennitt <graham@menhennitt.com.au> wrot=
e:
>>
>> On 6/10/2016 8:20 AM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>> > Le 05/10/2016 =C3=A0 22:04, Julian Elischer a =C3=A9crit :
>> >> Another thing that might be good woudl be a way to tell ports
>> "remove
>> >> all the ports that were just build dependencies".
>> > pkg autoremove
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for that Mathieu - I didn't know about that one.
>>
>> However...
>>
>> When I run it, it tells me that it's going to remove my cyrus-SASL
>> port.
>> I installed that (via its port) so that I can use SSL/TLS
>> authentication
>> on my Dovecot server (installed via the dovecot2 port). So Cyrus
>> is not
>> a build dependency of anything - why is it offering to remove it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Graham
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