Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:13:01 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Jeffrey Katcher <jmkatcher@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Packages with Absurd Dependencies Message-ID: <200407011813.04750.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20040701154328.38270.qmail@web41114.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040701154328.38270.qmail@web41114.mail.yahoo.com>
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--Boundary-02=_QgD5AKGFhxrRVBm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 01 July 2004 17:43, Jeffrey Katcher wrote: > 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"... There has been a long thread about this topic just recently. Search the=20 archives of this list for a thread "A question about dependencies". =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --Boundary-02=_QgD5AKGFhxrRVBm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBA5DgQXhc68WspdLARAg5RAJ9h13vXosXc5OLGuThj8ThKWggTZQCcD5sw kPYrLtSiVhADpeaCjCjjWu4= =gOuf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_QgD5AKGFhxrRVBm--
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