Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 12:21:39 +0200 From: Koop Mast <kwm@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Grandfather dependencies completely out of control Message-ID: <1272795699.58527.26.camel@headache.rainbow-runner.nl> In-Reply-To: <4BDD1728.8080903@FreeBSD.org> References: <4BDD1728.8080903@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 23:09 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm looking at the use of portmaster to upgrade perl versions, and > noticed that there are a ton of ports listed as dependent on perl that > don't have any use for it, including one of mine: > > qbittorrent-2.2.6 >> libnotify-0.4.5_3 >> atk-1.28.0 >> > gio-fam-backend-2.22.4 >> gamin-0.1.10_3 >> glib-2.22.4 >> > perl-threaded-5.8.9_3 > > Taking a look at devel/glib20, I see this: > USE_PERL5= yes > > although from the docs in the glib tarball it's not at all clear (to me > anyway) what it's used for. Given that it doesn't seem to be a rundep > for glib20 it's also not at all clear to me why qbittorrent should have > a pkgdep for it. One of the scripts provided by devel/glib20 is a perl script. That is the reason why we need perl. -Koop > Can someone please explain what the heck is going on here? (And please > note, I'm picking on glib20 because this seems to be a particularly > egregious example, but I'm really more interested in the problem generally.) > > > Doug >
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