ports/54830: galeon2 port needs depends on nspr port

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 24 22:47:17 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 18:24, Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:47:05PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Because the nspr port is not needed.  Galeon gets the nspr libraries
> > from Mozilla.  Therefore, you need to make sure your mozilla port is
> > up-to-date.
> 
> Ok, then why didn't 'portupgrade --new galeon2' cause my mozilla
> port to be sufficiently upgraded, as to introduce nspr stuff?  Am
> I completely misunderstanding how dependancies are utilized within
> the ports system?

There could be a number of reasons, but most like because an older
version of Mozilla was already installed.  I like to do portupgrade -ra
before adding nay new ports to the system because that way I'm sure
everything is up-to-date.

Joe

> 
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome


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