From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 08:14:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A63C16A4CF for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:14:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE8543D39 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:14:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i5T8EZOT015054 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:14:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i5T8EZiH015053; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:14:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:14:35 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Bob Melson Message-ID: <20040629081435.GA4372@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Bob Melson , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <40E0F356.8030603@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40E0F356.8030603@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.4 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:14:36 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040612, clamav-milter version 0.72a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:14:52 -0000 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:43:02PM -0600, Bob Melson wrote: > Briefly, I discovered on my system some 124 ports of 600+ that show > python as a requirement. Granted that many are probably cascading > requirements: A requires B which requires C which requires python, so A > and B are shown to depend on it; this still seems to me to be a problem. Actually, there are just two ports that directly depend on python, and through which the majority of those other ports you mention inherit their python dependence. Those ports are: textproc/libxml2 textproc/libxslt both of which are important parts of the Gnome environment. If you don't want python installed on your system, then there's a simple solution. Set 'WITHOUT_PYTHON=3Dyes' in /etc/make.conf and reinstall all of the ports that depend from those two. This will cause both of those ports to compile into packages without any python dependence: % pkg_info -I '*nopython*' libxml2-nopython-2.6.9 Xml parser library for GNOME libxslt-nopython-1.1.6 The XSLT C library for GNOME Given that, and not installing any ports with an explicit Python dependency and it's perfectly possible to trim python out of a system. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA4STriD657aJF7eIRApxNAJ4kjQaYJYYutEvJS3eC4Uuqh7URLQCgrpt9 2n6MyE4CEBJFOBQDOGfFCdQ= =+QL1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--