> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0700, Greg Shenaut wrote: > >Has it ever been suggested to create one or more "dependencies" > >ports (or more to the point, packages)? I think it might be pretty > >useful to have something like that so that all of the "prerequisites" > >can be installed at once. > > Maybe I'm missing something but how would that be an improvement on > what FreeBSD does now? If I try to install package X, it will > automatically install dependencies A, B and C, as well as their > dependencies. >
That would ease the installation of port X on Y number of machines. Same libraries, same everything, precompiled. Otherwise one needs to manually track dependencies (not a terribly difficult job) and make those as packages, and keep doing this until all dependencies are as packages (in my case, i have several light-weight servers/routers that have no gcc/make capabilities). If anyone knows of a program/script that will do this for me, please speak up! - Sten _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
