Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 19:37:50 -0500 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why does www/gecko-mediaplayer build devel/dbus and devel/dbus-glib ? Message-ID: <20150202003750.GY19629@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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According to Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> on Sun, 02/01/15 at 19:16: > > If you want to disable dbus use when *building* a port, you have to modify > the build-time configuration options, eg > cd /usr/ports/www/gecko-mediaplayer > make config > If you aren't seeing the config options when you go to build the port, it's > because you have already built the port once and the options are saved. > Doing "make config" allows you to change them. You can also reset them. > > However, gecko-mediaplayer does not have an option to disable use of dbus; > it only has the options CACHE (on by default) and DOCS (on by default). > You can see the options available using > make showconfig > > Depending on what you are running, you may be using dbus unknowingly; > it is a normal default for some subsystems. It may be that a mediaplayer > dependency requires it by default. Try: > pkg info | grep dbus > to see which version of dbus is installed, and then > pkg info -r dbus_1.8.12_1 (or whatever it was) > to see which other packages require it. > > You may be able to disable dbus when building one of those. > > You can drill down from mediaplayer by doing > pkg info -d whatever-pkg-name-is > to see its dependencies. Thanks. I did all those things, else how could I have mentioned the dbus dependency on www/gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer-1.0.9 (it is also "needed" by editors/abiword BTW). I'm not using dbus, as I said, and I'm not really trying to determine how to disable this dependency in other ports (if that is possible). I was merely curious why any FreeBSD ports would have a dependency on dbus when it is the stated intention of FreeBSD (IIRC) that dbus is not part of the future direction. I appreciate your reply, but you did not address that particular issue. Thanks again. Regards, web... -- /"\ ASCII RIBBON / William Bulley \ / CAMPAIGN AGAINST / X HTML E-MAIL AND / E-MAIL: web@umich.edu / \ LISTSERV POSTINGS / 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|
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