HAVE_GNOME vs. bsd.ports.options.mk

Michael Gmelin freebsd at grem.de
Wed Oct 10 16:18:35 UTC 2012


On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:56:32 -0500
Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Jeremy Messenger
> <mezz.freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> > See here: http://markmail.org/message/vmjueo2chuub5m2p  (read all
> > threads, please)
> >
> > I have made suggests on what to do. Please contact with A.J. Kehoe
> > IV. I suggested him to create a team to work on get rid of
> > HAVE_GNOME. He even has created a wiki page about it at
> > http://wiki.freebsd.org/Gnome .
> 
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/Gnome#WANT_GNOME_Decommission
> 
> > A.J. Kehoe IV, sorry, my time is very limit right now. Maybe now you
> > will have more people that can help you after this email. Who knows.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mezz
> >

Thanks for enlightening me, getting rid of WANT_GNOME actually seems
like a great idea to reduce dependency hell.

-- 
Michael Gmelin


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