ports/devel/glib20 and USE_PERL5

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 19 13:08:56 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 21:01 +0800, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Why glib2 depends on perl5 and why all packages depending on glib2
> inherit runtime dependency on Perl?

Because glib20 installs Perl scripts, and just about every dependency of
glib20 uses Perl in some way (e.g. ports that use intltool).

Joe

> 
> Eugene Grosbein
> 
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