From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 2 21:19:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE16B106566C for ; Sun, 2 May 2010 21:19:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7E88FC08 for ; Sun, 2 May 2010 21:19:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20665 invoked by uid 399); 2 May 2010 21:19:36 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 2 May 2010 21:19:36 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4BDDEC67.7090808@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 14:19:35 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Koop Mast References: <4BDD1728.8080903@FreeBSD.org> <1272795699.58527.26.camel@headache.rainbow-runner.nl> In-Reply-To: <1272795699.58527.26.camel@headache.rainbow-runner.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Grandfather dependencies completely out of control X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 21:19:39 -0000 On 05/02/10 03:21, Koop Mast wrote: > One of the scripts provided by devel/glib20 is a perl script. That is the reason why > we need perl. Thanks for the response, couple things come to mind. First, how many things actually make use of those perl/python scripts? If the number is small they should probably be OPTIONS that default to off, or slave ports as Thomas suggested. Meanwhile, I still don't understand why qbittorrent needs a pkgdep on perl when it cannot use perl in any way, and will not be affected in any way if perl is updated, or disappears entirely. The glib dependency is 6 layers deep from qbittorrent, isn't this just a little silly? Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/