Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 08:46:35 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Alexander@Leidinger.net Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sane Message-ID: <20040201.084635.127666022.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20040201132716.295f5a24@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <20040131.105803.64523683.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040201132716.295f5a24@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> writes:
: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:58:03 -0700 (MST)
: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
:
: > Is there any reason why sane-backend, and depend ports depend on the
: > gettext-old port instead of the gettext port? Changing these in a few
:
: Because Trevor changed all ports which previously depended on gettext to
: depend upon getext-old and nobody cared to check if it works with the
: new one or not.
:
: > places seems to make it build OK and doesn't conflict with the other
: > ports that I have installed in my tree that want the new version
: > (unless I'm just being stupid, and should force the old version to
: > install).
:
: The only reason why you should use the old one is: both gettext ports
: conflict with each other and as long as you have a lot dependencies on
: the old one you can't use the new one. If it works for you, go ahead and
: use it.
:
: I think most of the ports committers wait for an official "this is the
: way to go" statement from gettext-involved persons.
Fair enough. I'm getting conflicts from ports I have installed that
use the new one. Just thought I'd report this subtree works.
Warner
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