ports/61138: net/psi missing devel/qmake dependency

Munish Chopra chopra at soulwax.net
Fri Jan 9 21:30:26 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR ports/61138; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Munish Chopra <chopra at soulwax.net>
To: Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/61138: net/psi missing devel/qmake dependency
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:17:54 -0500

 On 2004-01-09 22:17 +0000, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
 > The problem here is that qmake is a build dependency of qt, so it's
 > possible to install qt, remove qmake and then go on and install a
 > qt-consumer like psi and qmake is not there.
 >
 
 Yeah, this makes sense.
  
 > Solutions:
 > 
 > 1) Add qmake build dependency to many many ports.
 
 Sounds like a much too large headache.
 
 > 2) Change qmake to be both build and runtime dependency of qt.
 > 
 
 Probably a better idea.
 
 > This is up to KDE team.
 
 Thanks for the explanation, Pav.
 
 -- 
 Munish Chopra



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