Dependancy hell, post linux_base-8 conversion

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:46:26 -0800
"David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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?

This is the dependency list of our native xorg-libraries port:
---snip---
% make all-depends-list 
/usr/ports/converters/libiconv
/usr/ports/devel/gettext
/usr/ports/devel/gmake
/usr/ports/devel/imake-6
/usr/ports/devel/libtool13
/usr/ports/devel/libtool15
/usr/ports/devel/pkgconfig
/usr/ports/lang/perl5
/usr/ports/print/freetype2
/usr/ports/textproc/expat2
/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig
---snip---

The dependencies for our native XFree86-4-libraries look like:
---snip---
% make all-depends-list    
/usr/ports/converters/libiconv
/usr/ports/devel/gettext
/usr/ports/devel/gmake
/usr/ports/devel/imake-6
/usr/ports/devel/libtool13
/usr/ports/devel/libtool15
/usr/ports/devel/pkgconfig
/usr/ports/lang/perl5
/usr/ports/print/freetype2
/usr/ports/textproc/expat2
/usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig
---snip---

Does this answer your question?

Bye,
Alexander.

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