Dependancy hell, post linux_base-8 conversion

[David O'Brien]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:00:34PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:46:26 -0800
> "David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Now that we've changed from linux_base[-rh7] to linux_base-8 as the
> > default linux base we've entered dependency hell. :-(
> > 
> > Previously print/acroread[5] depended only on linux_base.
> > Now acroread depends on x11/linux-XFree86-libs, which depends on
> > x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig, which depends on textproc/linux-expat, which
> > finally depends on linux_base-8.
> > 
> > Is this really what we want to do?  Go from a single complete and
> > comprehensive dependency to four?
> 
> This is the dependency list of our native xorg-libraries port:
..snip..
> Does this answer your question?

Not sure if you're trying to say "YES, we like it."

One thing different though -- we build our xorg and XFree86 libraries
from source.  The Linux ones are just RPM installs.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)

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