ports/54830: galeon2 port needs depends on nspr port

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 19:20, Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 06:47:04PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 18:24, Brian Reichert wrote:
> > > Ok, then why didn't 'portupgrade --new galeon2' cause my mozilla
> > > port to be sufficiently upgraded, as to introduce nspr stuff?  Am
> > > I completely misunderstanding how dependancies are utilized within
> > > the ports system?
> > 
> > There could be a number of reasons, but most like because an older
> > version of Mozilla was already installed.
> 
> That doesn't answer my question, unfortunately.
> 
> If 'galeon2' (however indirectly) depends on nspr, why isn't that
> knowledge encoded in the ports tree?

Galeon doesn't depend on nspr.  It depends on Mozilla which depends on
an included version of nspr.

> 
> Either galeon2 depends on nspr, or it depends on a sufficiently new
> mozilla, where 'sufficiently new' is defined as 'in turn depends
> on nspr'.

Something happened with your mozilla installation.  I don't know what. 
In any event, if you reinstall Mozilla, you should be fine.

Joe

> 
> At least, that's what I've come to expect out of a dependancy-driven
> system such that this...
> 
> > I like to do portupgrade -ra
> > before adding nay new ports to the system because that way I'm sure
> > everything is up-to-date.
> 
> I had in fact preceded this entire affair with 'portupgrade -ra'.
> 
> 'galeon', did install, but proved to be buggy.  I noticed a 'galeon2'
> port, so I installed _that_.  That's when the bitching about
> libplds4.so.1 began.
> 
> Hence, my PR, and our subsequent conversation. :)
> 
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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