Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 07:07:15 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs?= Fernando Schultz Xavier da Silveira <schultz@ime.usp.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unexpected dependencies of graphics/libGL Message-ID: <20160117070715.1c33732b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20160117031923.ce1f36547351bf07b6fff9a0@ime.usp.br> References: <20160117031923.ce1f36547351bf07b6fff9a0@ime.usp.br>
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On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:19:23 +0000, Lu=EDs Fernando Schultz Xavier da Silve= ira wrote: > Since the beginning of this year, graphics/libGL and friends started > depending on a significant amount of software, including git and bzr. > Could anyone explain why that is and whether it is possible to avoid > such dependencies? >=20 > Also, there is a dependency on clang and llvm from ports because of > advanced features that I (and I guess many of us) do not require. > I believe it has to do with the Gallium driver and OpenCL. >=20 > Just a suggestion: it would be pretty nice if there were some port > knobs to avoid pulling in another toolchain from ports to build > software that is never run. Is installing from a package an option for you? In this case only the run dependencies will be installed, the build dependencies will be left out. I can imagine that some software vendors put everything on the build dependencies list they typically find on developers' Linux systems (git to check out code, a "custom" compiler, maybe a whole document processing system for the creation of the documentation, and so on), but on FreeBSD those maybe are not needed, so using a package might not "pollute" your system with stuff you don't need. Usually a port _does_ have configuration options to avoid this, but as I said: If the maintainer considers certain software essential for building, the required stuff is not optional anymore - no matter if the programs in question are _actually being used_ or not... --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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