why does www/gecko-mediaplayer build devel/dbus and devel/dbus-glib ?
William Bulley
web at umich.edu
Mon Feb 2 01:41:51 UTC 2015
According to Gary Aitken <freebsd at dreamchaser.org> on Sun, 02/01/15 at 19:16:
>
> If you want to disable dbus use when *building* a port, you have to modify
> the build-time configuration options, eg
> cd /usr/ports/www/gecko-mediaplayer
> make config
> If you aren't seeing the config options when you go to build the port, it's
> because you have already built the port once and the options are saved.
> Doing "make config" allows you to change them. You can also reset them.
>
> However, gecko-mediaplayer does not have an option to disable use of dbus;
> it only has the options CACHE (on by default) and DOCS (on by default).
> You can see the options available using
> make showconfig
>
> Depending on what you are running, you may be using dbus unknowingly;
> it is a normal default for some subsystems. It may be that a mediaplayer
> dependency requires it by default. Try:
> pkg info | grep dbus
> to see which version of dbus is installed, and then
> pkg info -r dbus_1.8.12_1 (or whatever it was)
> to see which other packages require it.
>
> You may be able to disable dbus when building one of those.
>
> You can drill down from mediaplayer by doing
> pkg info -d whatever-pkg-name-is
> to see its dependencies.
Thanks. I did all those things, else how could I have mentioned the
dbus dependency on www/gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer-1.0.9 (it
is also "needed" by editors/abiword BTW). I'm not using dbus, as I
said, and I'm not really trying to determine how to disable this
dependency in other ports (if that is possible). I was merely
curious why any FreeBSD ports would have a dependency on dbus when
it is the stated intention of FreeBSD (IIRC) that dbus is not part
of the future direction. I appreciate your reply, but you did not
address that particular issue. Thanks again.
Regards,
web...
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