need help with the last-two-ports!
Polytropon
freebsd at edvax.de
Fri Jan 22 23:05:42 UTC 2010
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:33:09 -0800, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> surprised how many things depend on that nspr... wow.
It seems to be because many other things depend on Netscape
(or the corresponding HTML renderer or who knows what); from
the port's description:
Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a
platform-neutral API for system level and
libc like functions. The API is used in the
Mozilla client, many of Netscape/AOL/iPlanet's
and other software offerings.
So why port software complicatedly to FreeBSD when all
the OS-specific stuff can be abstracted by another port? :-)
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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