Why so many ports still depend on firefox-2.X.X.X ?

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Sun Apr 26 15:37:23 UTC 2009


Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> I see that ImageMagick, gimp, gimp-apps, inkscape, gnucash, etc depend
>> on firefox-2.
>>     
>
> I don't see that at all.  
> What makes you say that?
>
> None of those programs seem to have firefox on their dependency lists in
> the ports system, and I don't remember using a browser with any of them.
>   


I see this when I run this command:

$ pkg_info -R firefox-2.0.0.20_7,1
Information for firefox-2.0.0.20_7,1:

Required by:
ImageMagick-6.5.1.1
gegl-0.0.22_1
gimp-2.6.5,2
gimp-app-2.6.5_1,1
gimp-gutenprint-5.1.7_1
gnucash-2.2.7_2
gnucash-docs-2.2.0_3
inkscape-0.46_5
librsvg2-2.26.0
swt-3.4
yelp-2.26.0


There is something in the install process that causes these dependencies 
to be created.
I have ports updated with portupgrade.
And I have FF-3 installed as well.

Yuri



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