From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 16:03:34 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 85FEA16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:03:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2138143D3F for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:03:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j0HG3RSF013971; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:03:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:03:26 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20050117160326.GB82799@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050116034626.GA24533@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050116120034.1bad2a84@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050116212651.GA58620@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050117123600.4eab233c@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050117123600.4eab233c@Magellan.Leidinger.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i 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 List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:03:34 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 17), Alexander Leidinger said: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:26:51 -0800 "David O'Brien" wrote: > > > 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." > > The X11 libs depend upon the expat and fontconfig libs. So yes, we > like to specify the dependencies. You expect to be able to use > acroread when you install it, aren't you? [...] > We depend on expat and fontconfig in our X11 libs because they need > them at run time (lib depends). For linux this is the case too. So > why should we not let the linux X11 libs depend upon them? > > The alternative is to add implicit dependencies to all other ports. > We don't do this for our FreeBSD ports (most of the time), so why > should we do it in the linux ports? But is this a slippery slope where at some point we will have a linux-* rpm "port" for every rpm installed? Why not just pull the expat, fontconfig, etc rpms into linux_base? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com