Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:12:55 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Aryeh M. 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.t2sortg29aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <4754C396.3060007@gmail.com> References: <BDFE616B01457E0B71D9FD2F@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <47547FEE.9040405@gmail.com> <CF7CA160EBCB18FB5A6E7ECB@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <475489E4.2050704@gmail.com> <20071204014805.24d2f25f@gumby.homeunix.com.> <bef9a7920712031823l6692a0b8s4dfba7096339388e@mail.gmail.com> <op.t2sivct29aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <4754C396.3060007@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:03:50 -0600, Aryeh M. Friedman = <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> 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 leav= es >>>> 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 befor= e >>> 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 can avoid that by use WITHOUT_GNOME=3Dyes. You want to rewrite >> ports system because of this? >> > > It was one of several examples... Still a bad example from you anyway, because it is not a bug in ports = system. Cheers, Mezz > jesus how I wish I could post some > of the private replies I got so people could see the amount of > frustration out there with the current system but that would color > other replies so I will wait until I don't get any new survey replies > for 24 hrs then I will post a summary and verbatum the ones the > orginal authors let me do this with. > > > - -- > Aryeh M. Friedman > FloSoft Systems > Developer, not business, friendly > http://www.flosoft-systems.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHVMOW358R5LPuPvsRAg9zAJ0W8m1qTLp7lQ22G78oJS8DSgrr7wCdHgsA > fGrYY61Uq9pWI5dg0dIFqzg=3D > =3D57V5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- = mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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