Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:14:04 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to enable Linujx binary compatibility using sysinstall Message-ID: <20080318231404.2b2f9c35@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080318214611.3bf426e9@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <47E0233C.5030208@brookes.ac.uk> <20080318214611.3bf426e9@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:46:11 +0000 RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote: > > Why does the ports install require all these other packages, when > > none of these are installed if you remember to select the "Enable > > Linux binary compatibility" option during install? > > They are dependencies of the particular application, or linux-base. I didn't quite get that you were talking about just installing a linux-base. The reason is that sysinstall uses a FreeBSD package, but the port installs from whatever the Linux distro uses, in this case Fedora RPM packages. The port therefore requires the FreeBSD RPM port and its dependencies.
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