Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:44:28 -0700 From: Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com> To: Bob Melson <melsonr@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about dependencies Message-ID: <75f3f7050406282244490b340a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <40E0F356.8030603@earthlink.net> References: <40E0F356.8030603@earthlink.net>
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:43:02 -0600, Bob Melson <melsonr@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Briefly, I discovered on my system some 124 ports of 600+ that show > python as a requirement. Granted that many are probably cascading > requirements: A requires B which requires C which requires python, so A > and B are shown to depend on it; this still seems to me to be a problem. Why is it a problem? I'm not quite sure why you see depending on python is an issue versus requiring cc (gcc). Code needs to be compiled or run, one way or another. > Still, if this business with the python dependencies is any indicator, > the system could be improved, although I'm unable to say how. > Again, pardon my ignorance, why are python dependencies an indicator of a need for improvement? Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I don't see the relation. --roop
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