Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:26:51 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependancy hell, post linux_base-8 conversion Message-ID: <20050116212651.GA58620@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050116120034.1bad2a84@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <20050116034626.GA24533@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050116120034.1bad2a84@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:00:34PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:46:26 -0800 > "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Now that we've changed from linux_base[-rh7] to linux_base-8 as the > > default linux base we've entered dependency hell. :-( > > > > Previously print/acroread[5] depended only on linux_base. > > Now acroread depends on x11/linux-XFree86-libs, which depends on > > x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig, which depends on textproc/linux-expat, which > > finally depends on linux_base-8. > > > > Is this really what we want to do? Go from a single complete and > > comprehensive dependency to four? > > 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." One thing different though -- we build our xorg and XFree86 libraries from source. The Linux ones are just RPM installs. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) P.S. please respect the Reply-To:
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