-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:23:20 -0600, Aryeh Friedman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> >>> >>> Having said that dependencies often do depend on the order the leaves >>> are installed, because some ports will use alternate dependencies >>> according to what's already there. It makes things a lot easier to >>> maintain. >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> btw xdm is not the worst offender for example if you install abiword >> after installing gnome it will not start but if you install it before >> hand then install gnome no issue > > Have you report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet? The abiword port will > enable with GNOME option by default if GNOME exists in system, but > you can avoid that by use WITHOUT_GNOME=yes. You want to rewrite > ports system because of this? >
It was one of several examples... jesus how I wish I could post some of the private replies I got so people could see the amount of frustration out there with the current system but that would color other replies so I will wait until I don't get any new survey replies for 24 hrs then I will post a summary and verbatum the ones the orginal authors let me do this with. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHVMOW358R5LPuPvsRAg9zAJ0W8m1qTLp7lQ22G78oJS8DSgrr7wCdHgsA fGrYY61Uq9pWI5dg0dIFqzg= =57V5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
