Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:37:22 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: pkgdb: add dependencies option? (was Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion) Message-ID: <XFMail.20040723193722.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20040723192528.conrads@cox.net>
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[ Cc: to portupgrade's author ] On 24-Jul-2004 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > On 24-Jul-2004 Eric Anholt wrote: >> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 17:07, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >>> >>> Just one question: have the inconsistencies been worked out in >>> translating XFree86 fonts package dependencies to Xorg fonts >>> packages? Have all ports that depend on XFree86 fonts packages >>> been adjusted, and if so, how was this issue resolved? >> >> Yes, it was dealt with by making those ports point at the font >> package that provides truetype fonts. > > OK, but then what about the dependencies on Type1 fonts? Those have > all just been dropped? Might it not be better to ensure that both > packages are listed now as dependencies? This just brought to light a potentially useful function that's currently lacking in pkgdb: the ability to add a new dependency to an installed package. Up until now, I've been manually adjusting Xorg font dependencies by translating XFree86-fontScaleable to xorg-fonts-type1 (although I do tend to believe that both xorg-fonts-type1 and xorg-fonts-truetype are needed to fully counterpart the XFree86 package). Unfortunately, there is currently no way to tell pkgdb to add xorg-fonts-truetype as an additional dependency to the installed packages that need it. This would be a nice addition to pkgdb's functionality, I believe. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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