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Subject: Re: Packages with Absurd Dependencies
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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".

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