From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 08:43:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C71F1065670 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:43:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from megatron.madpilot.net (megatron.madpilot.net [88.149.173.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2988FC1A for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:43:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: by megatron.madpilot.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0FF51130C5B; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:43:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:43:15 +0100 From: Guido Falsi To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, bg1tpt@gmail.com Message-ID: <20081217084315.GA42762@megatron.madpilot.net> References: <20081215152824.GA18862@megatron.madpilot.net> <20081215173812.GA42598@hobbes.ustdmz.roe.ch> <20081216112320.GB29493@megatron.madpilot.net> <20081216233455.GC76371@hobbes.ustdmz.roe.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081216233455.GC76371@hobbes.ustdmz.roe.ch> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Subject: Re: rrdtool 1.3.3 and dejavu dependency X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:43:18 -0000 On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:34:55AM +0100, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote: > > My tests show that it falls back to bitstream-vera, but I haven't > tested it on a clean system. It does on a clean system, but perhaps letting users know or giving options would be much better. > > I think what we need is something along the lines of depending on > (dejavu OR bitstream-vera). Or even any TTF font. There are > other possibilities, like making graphing support optional in > rrdtool, or replacing the dependency with a pkg-message, asking > the user to install some font if graphing is to be used. I think some options in the port, like "depend on xorg-fonts-truetype" and "depend on dejavu (requires X11)" could be some good starting point. The user would have control on what to install. > > I see pango is depending on x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-truetype, which depends > > on some fonts pacjkages but not on libX11. > > > > Hope my feedback helps. > > Due to ENOTIME, I wont be able to devote any meaningful amount of > time to this any time soon. Can you submit the information in > this thread as a PR against rrdtool so it doesn't get lost? I understand... I'll be too busy during christmas, but I'll have a look at it and try to send some patch for the port. -- Guido Falsi