X11BASE still in use in ports

Alex Kozlov spam at rm-rf.kiev.ua
Sun Jun 24 12:37:16 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 03:46:40AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> I noticed a failure in one of my ports today while doing an upgrade, and
> was embarrassed to find that it was due to my port still using X11BASE.
> That led me to do a quick grep of the tree, which seems to indicate that
> there are a non-zero number of uses of it which seem to be erroneous:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/x11base-ports.txt
> 
> Note, some of these are actually Ok, I haven't made an attempt to filter
> them out yet.
> 
> Is there any interest in cleaning these up? Should we restore the
> definition of X11BASE until all of the ports that are using it are fixed?
> 
> I'm kind of surprised by this problem, since the usual way of removing
> something like this is to make sure all of the consumers have been fixed
> first.
I have done a basic analysis. Ports that need to be fixed ('?' - not sure,
'<D>' - should be deleted):  http://people.freebsd.org/~ak/x11base.log


-- 
Alex


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