Limitations of Ports System

Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 14:47:12 PST 2007


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John Birrell wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:36:07PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>> I was not planning to skimp on the requirements at all but the
>> test case is xorg... i.e. I will do my best to not compermise on
>> features/requirements but xorg meets several criteria for being a
>> good test (out of order building, alt. depends, large but
>> seperatable DAG)
>
> But it all comes from one source and is released as one set. You
> need to think about things that are released from different places
> with different dependencies at different times. And then allow for
> the lag of getting the FreeBSD part updated.

Perl, python and other pre-reqs to xorg are not from the same source
thus fit the requirement.... I should of been more specific by saying
xorg+all pre-req ports.
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