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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:34:57 +0300
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dependencies out of hand?
Message-ID:  <200711201734.57547.yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200711200927.31037@aldan>
References:  <200711200912.33376@aldan> <200711201720.53864.yuri.pankov@gmail.com> <200711200927.31037@aldan>

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On Tuesday 20 November 2007 17:27:30 Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On =D7=A6=D7=D4=CF=D2=CF=CB 20 =CC=C9=D3=D4=CF=D0=C1=C4 2007, Yuri Pankov=
 wrote:
> =3D New xorg-server utilizes sysutils/hal for hardware autodetection,
> glib20 =3D and cdrecord are dependencies of hal (can be turned off
> using =3D WITHOUT_HAL). It also needs dbus, polkit and so on. Not sure
> about gtk.
>
> Thanks, Yuri. But I could trace the dependencies myself. My point

Well, sorry for the noise.

> was, something is wrong if an unrelated utility such as cdrecord and
> a large (and frequently changing) library such as glib are both
> /required/ to build the X-server.
>
> Maybe, the WITHOUT_HAL knob should be more visible... Maybe, it
> should not require cdrecord by default.
>
> I don't have a solution -- I'm just pointing out a problem...
>
> 	-mi


Yuri



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