Port dependencies

[Christer Solskogen]

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Chris Telting
<christopher-ml at telting.org> wrote:
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> How does debian get around all the "make config" options that we deal with?
>  Such as does such and such package pull in samba...  Or does debian just
> compile with every option more or less enabled?
>

Yes, and no. One debian "source" package may create 1 or more binary
packages. For instance, Debian has at least two sudo packages (sudo
and sudo-ldap) -but only one source package. Take a look here:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/sudo
(Also, Debian/Ubuntu also create -dev packages for headers and
development libraries, which FreeBSD ports does not (THANK GOD!))


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chs