From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 21:26:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC11816A4D2 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:26:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B36343D41 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:26:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0GLQqbw058710; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:26:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0GLQptM058709; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:26:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:26:51 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20050116212651.GA58620@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050116034626.GA24533@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050116120034.1bad2a84@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050116120034.1bad2a84@Magellan.Leidinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependancy hell, post linux_base-8 conversion X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:26:53 -0000 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" 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: