ports/111277: Conflicts between graphics/gimp-app and graphics/gimp

[Michael Johnson]

On 4/5/07, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru> wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/111277; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: ports/111277: Conflicts between graphics/gimp-app and graphics/gimp
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 22:11:18 +0400
>
>  What's the point in gimp-app by the way? Can't help and gutenprint be
>  added as options and depends to gimp port (which is gimp-app now) itself
>  instead?
>

It's a chicken and egg problem with gutenprint & gimp and gimp & gimp-help.
With out the meta-port gimp couldn't depend on gimp-help and we couldn't have
py-gimp with gimp depdinging on py-gimp.

>  --
>  Best regards,
>    Dmitry Marakasov               mailto:amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
>
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