Dependancy hell, post linux_base-8 conversion

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 15 19:46:27 PST 2005


Now that we've changed from linux_base[-rh7] to linux_base-8 as the
default linux base we've entered dependency hell. :-(

Previously print/acroread[5] depended only on linux_base.
Now acroread depends on x11/linux-XFree86-libs, which depends on
x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig, which depends on textproc/linux-expat, which
finally depends on linux_base-8.

Is this really what we want to do?  Go from a single complete and
comprehensive dependency to four?

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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