Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:37:13 -0700 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why so many ports still depend on firefox-2.X.X.X ? Message-ID: <49F47FA9.3080504@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <448wlnv7uh.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <49F424CA.3040100@rawbw.com> <448wlnv7uh.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> I see that ImageMagick, gimp, gimp-apps, inkscape, gnucash, etc depend >> on firefox-2. >> > > I don't see that at all. > What makes you say that? > > None of those programs seem to have firefox on their dependency lists in > the ports system, and I don't remember using a browser with any of them. > I see this when I run this command: $ pkg_info -R firefox-2.0.0.20_7,1 Information for firefox-2.0.0.20_7,1: Required by: ImageMagick-6.5.1.1 gegl-0.0.22_1 gimp-2.6.5,2 gimp-app-2.6.5_1,1 gimp-gutenprint-5.1.7_1 gnucash-2.2.7_2 gnucash-docs-2.2.0_3 inkscape-0.46_5 librsvg2-2.26.0 swt-3.4 yelp-2.26.0 There is something in the install process that causes these dependencies to be created. I have ports updated with portupgrade. And I have FF-3 installed as well. Yuri
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