From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 15:45:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C4016A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:45:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41114.mail.yahoo.com (web41114.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D14F43D48 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:45:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmkatcher@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040701154328.38270.qmail@web41114.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.18.54.216] by web41114.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:43:28 PDT Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:43:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeffrey Katcher To: Erik Trulsson In-Reply-To: <20040701152622.GA10190@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages with Absurd Dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:45:18 -0000 I appreciate your response, and apologize for my somewhat overdramatic posting. I know I have more control via ports, but it's the prebuilt packages with dependencies that are most troublesome. I can understand libxml2, even, but gtk2? There should be another class of dependency for "could use" instead of "must use"... Jeff Katcher