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From: "Jiawei Ye" <leafy7382@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: dependency inheritance
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On 5/15/06, [LoN]Kamikaze <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> wrote:
> First of all I don't understand why it should have any dependencies
> apart from portupgrade.
> The second problem is that apart from ruby-1.8.4_6,1 and perl-5.8.8,
> which were obviously inherited from portupgrade, why does it inherit the
> wrong version of ruby-bdb and why doesn't it inherit bdb4?
During my conversation with the author of portmanager, we found that
pkg_* tools look at the ports Makefiles instead of the installed
db/pkg/+CONTENTS when determining the dependancies. Portmanager did an
excellent job resolving these dependancy things, but it is not in
active development now.

Jiawei Ye

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"Without the userland, the kernel is useless."
               --inspired by The Tao of Programming