7.0-RC2 package glitch

[Mark Linimon]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:13:35PM -0800, Wayne Chapeskie wrote:
> The RC2 sysinstall misses six packages, which are included on disc 1,
> which RC1 did install:
>
>    imake-1.0.2_4,1
>        makedepend-1.0.1,1
>        gccmakedep-1.0.2
>        xorg-cf-files-1.0.2_2
>    xorg-nestserver-1.4,1
>    xorg-vfbserver-1.4,1
> 
> Between RC1 and RC2, sysinstall was cleaned up to install X by using
> the single top level xorg meta-package rather than the old method
> of specifying a number of different meta-packages.  Unfortunately,
> the xorg-7.3_1 package in 7.0-release does not pull in the above six
> packages.

There are two differences.

imake (which brings in makedepend, gccmakedep, and xorg-cf-files) is
only a BUILD_DEPENDS of the xorg metaport.  If you're simply installing
from packages, you won't need them.  If you want to rebuild them at
any future time, you will.

vfbserver and nestserver are depended on by 4 and zero ports respectively,
none of which are in the xorg metaport.  They'll only be brought in if
you need one of them.

So, AFAIAC, this is "working as designed".

mcl