Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Dependencies

[Stuart Krivis]

On Fri, 26 May 2000, Jonathan Prigot wrote:

> One thing that I have always admired in FreeBSD is the way that dependencies
> are automatically handled. If one package is needed by another, then it is
> automatically installed and the installation moves on.

The ports system does this, since you don't stand much chance of
successfully compiling something without the dependencies.  For
binary packages, pkg_add is not that smart and only warns you about
dependencies.



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