Excessive dependancies for OpenOffice 2.0 port

Ade Lovett ade at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 15 17:55:07 PST 2005


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On Nov 15, 2005, at 15:36 , Brooks Davis wrote:
> Changing dependencies based on currently installed things is an
> incredibly stupid idea and should be banned.

Quite so.  I'd love to purge the tree of the relatively large amount of:

.if exists(something)
[add-dependency]
.endif

It's a right royal pain in the arse.

- -aDe

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