Some unexplained dependencies of multimedia/avifile

[Parv]

in message <20060112084143.GA63336 at falcon.midgard.homeip.net>,
wrote Erik Trulsson thusly...
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:12:42AM -0500, Parv wrote:
> > Following ports seem to be dependencies of multimedia/avifile
> > (at least listed in INDEX-6) ...
> > 
> >   security/gnutls
> >   print/cups-base
...
> > How are the above dependencies defined if not explicitly listed
> > in multimedia/avifile/Makefile?
...
> x11-toolkits/qt33 (by default) depends on print/cups-base

Ah, thank you; i would not have even guessed that.


> print/cups-base (by default) depends on security/gnu-tls
>
> > More importantly, how do i remove cups as a dependency for
> > avifile port
...
> Either use WITHOUT_QT when compiling avifile (which will lose you
> some functionality - in particular the aviplay command needs QT)
> or compile qt33 with WITHOUT_CUPS

Thanks much.  I will reinstall qt33 w/o the cups.


  - Parv

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