ports/58840: [PATCH] exclude possibly unrequireddependenciesfrom x11/gnome2

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:39:49 +0000
Jens Rehsack <rehsack at liwing.de> wrote:

> > I don't want to push this change into the tree, but I think it would be
> > a good idea to have it. The sole reason of this mail is to understand
> > the reasoning of the rejection.
> 
> As far I understood, x11/gnome2 and x11/gnome2-fifth-toe are ports as
> specified by the Gnome team. So the ports installed by this port are
> defined by specification.

Let's have a look at the quakeforge port. Without specifying any knobs
it installs all files defined by specification (as in: "the authors
specify files x, y and z as the files which should get installed by
default"). But the port also has some knobs which allows an user who
knows what he wants to modify this specification (e.g. without servers,
without client and/or without tools). quakeforce isn't split into
several ports as gnome is, but it isn't as large as gnome is. In my POV
both ports are equal, so why do we threat them differently?

XFree86-4 was converted into a meta-port a while ago to offer the
possibility to only install parts of it. While it doesn't has knobs to
allow this on XFree86-4 level, it doesn't need to, as there aren't as
many packages as gnome needs to install. So we offer an easy possibility
for XFree86-4. Why can't we offer something similar for gnome?

Bye,
Alexander.

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