DEPENDS -- is it time to remove it?

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 5 09:52:53 PST 2007


On 1/5/07, RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
> Isn't DEPENDS still a sensible way of making
> one metaport depend on another. For example
> if someone wanted to create a personal desk-
> top metaport that depends on KDE, xorg etc.

People need programs, not ports. It's more
sensible to run_depend on files than just on
ports.


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