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Date:      Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:05:26 -0600
From:      "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering
Message-ID:  <op.t2sivct29aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <bef9a7920712031823l6692a0b8s4dfba7096339388e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:23:20 -0600, Aryeh Friedman  =

<aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>>
>> Having said that dependencies often do depend on the order the leaves=

>> are installed, because some ports will use alternate dependencies
>> according to what's already there. It makes things a lot easier to
>> maintain.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> btw xdm is not the worst offender for example if you install abiword
> after installing gnome it will not start but if you install it before
> hand then install gnome no issue

Have you report this to gnome@FreeBSD.org yet? The abiword port will  =

enable with GNOME option by default if GNOME exists in system, but you c=
an  =

avoid that by use WITHOUT_GNOME=3Dyes. You want to rewrite ports system =
 =

because of this?

Cheers,
Mezz


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