On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:41:24PM -0700, Doug wrote:
>
> the parts that they need. However right after 3.2-R came out there was a
> flurry of -questions mail about broken pkg dependencies because sysinstall
> wasn't properly registering the X install. If the port depending on the
> existence of /var/db/pkg/X* is actually an error I'll report what I find to
> the -ports list.
You need to specify "port, eg. /usr/ports/x/y" or "package".
I'd be surprised if you find any port that depends on /var/db/pkg/x.
It used to be that packages would depend on X, but Sheldon reminded me
(although I think it was accidental :-) that XFree86 was added to
PACKAGE_IGNORE_DEPENDS to prevent this.
Thus, only /usr/ports should depend on X. Few if any of these should be
looking through ${PKG_DBDIR} for information. No packages should
depend on X.
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