dependency inheritance

Jiawei Ye leafy7382 at gmail.com
Mon May 15 07:51:41 UTC 2006


On 5/15/06, [LoN]Kamikaze <LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de> wrote:
> First of all I don't understand why it should have any dependencies
> apart from portupgrade.
> The second problem is that apart from ruby-1.8.4_6,1 and perl-5.8.8,
> which were obviously inherited from portupgrade, why does it inherit the
> wrong version of ruby-bdb and why doesn't it inherit bdb4?
During my conversation with the author of portmanager, we found that
pkg_* tools look at the ports Makefiles instead of the installed
db/pkg/+CONTENTS when determining the dependancies. Portmanager did an
excellent job resolving these dependancy things, but it is not in
active development now.

Jiawei Ye

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