Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:19:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Cc: kde@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: HEADS UP: Big change to x11/kde3 (Read carefully!) Message-ID: <20030602201400.C5799@volatile.chemikals.org> In-Reply-To: <20030603000915.GE81874@procyon.firepipe.net> References: <20030602231303.GA28072@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030602233551.GC81874@procyon.firepipe.net> <20030602235744.GD81874@procyon.firepipe.net> <20030603000915.GE81874@procyon.firepipe.net>
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Will Andrews wrote: > Do you actually know what happened with the meta-port today? All > that changed was the restoration of old behavior (and the > addition of a knob for the ignorant users that don't know kdebase > is a minimal KDE install). Who lost what today? I lost knowing that by installing x11/kde3 I was stuck with only ONE port I did not want. Now I have to deal with remembering ALL the ports (I always forget artsd, it doesnt associate itself with KDE very well) or deal with at least 6 ports I don't want. I don't use 'portupgrade' for everything. Believe it or not, the ports system is still designed to work with 'make', and asking me to forsake that for portupgrade is irritating. > The meta-port was never customizable to the extent that you want, > nor is there a good reason to do that. Again, I ask, what is > wrong with typing "portinstall kdebase <kde-whatever>" as opposed > to your solution, to add this list to /etc/make.conf? As I said, koffice was the only port I did not want. The new change introduces at least 6 that I do not want and forces me to do the whole thing manually. A "minimal" install of base+libs is completely worthless. I was offering my *opinion* that more flexible dependencies would be nice. The ports system is quite capable of dealing with it. What I was NOT expecting was to be flamed for not agreeing with the port maintainers. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
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