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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:47:08 -0500
From:      "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Limitations of Ports System
Message-ID:  <4761B66C.8000006@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071213224430.GA53373@what-creek.com>
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John Birrell wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:36:07PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>> I was not planning to skimp on the requirements at all but the
>> test case is xorg... i.e. I will do my best to not compermise on
>> features/requirements but xorg meets several criteria for being a
>> good test (out of order building, alt. depends, large but
>> seperatable DAG)
>
> But it all comes from one source and is released as one set. You
> need to think about things that are released from different places
> with different dependencies at different times. And then allow for
> the lag of getting the FreeBSD part updated.

Perl, python and other pre-reqs to xorg are not from the same source
thus fit the requirement.... I should of been more specific by saying
xorg+all pre-req ports.
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