Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:45:17 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile Message-ID: <200103091745.f29HjHI09267@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Mar 2001 17:00:04 GMT." <20010309170004.Q412@hand.dotat.at> References: <20010309170004.Q412@hand.dotat.at> <20010308030217.P31752@elvis.mu.org> <20010308015237.O31752@elvis.mu.org> <200103080830.f288UVR63950@gratis.grondar.za> <20010308030217.P31752@elvis.mu.org> <200103082328.f28NSLI06914@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20010309170004.Q412@hand.dotat.at> Tony Finch writes: : Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> wrote: : > : >Also, XFree86 is also very special when it comes to ports. It is : >almost impossible to make X11 ports depend on a different port for : >X11. There are many different places where it is hard coded or : >semi-hard coded. : : This is a good example of where the pkg system needs something like : the Debian "provides" concept, where you can have a variety of : different packages that provide X or an MTA or some other system : service with a variety of implementations. While I have no doubt that this would be useful, this isn't the problem at hand. The problem has to do with what X11 to build and how to encode dependencies into packages. I want to have a slight variation on XFree86 3.3.6 via a slave port. I'm not looking to abstract things out at such a high level. The stuff I need would break if 4.x was installed, for example. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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