Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 04:49:07 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfig and transfig Message-ID: <199508181149.EAA05006@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199508132058.WAA07502@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> (jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
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* OK, lets have a new pseudo thing like * EXEC_DEPENDS * perhaps * EXEC_RECCOMENDED * * That will alllow for both ends of the spectrum, with both ends also having * full automatic compilation. That is a good idea, can you send me a patch that will add it to bsd.port.mk? You may want to spell it "RECOMMENDED" though. :> * EG I can make a damn good case for instance that ghostview is Not necessary * for Hylafax (even though I personally happen to use ghostview for each fax * I get :-) (anyone who doesnt undesrtand this should read the hylafax-in- * remote-server-with forwarding mode docs before challenging that :-) As I said before, I am not saying that EVERYBODY that runs hylafax needs ghostview, I'm just saying that if most of them needs it, then let's put it in the dependency list. What we need to cater for is the "typical" Joe user, whose life we are trying to make it easy. (And printing "ghostview: command not found" in some obscure terminal is not how to accomplish that.) Satoshi
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