Peter Jeremy wrote:
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.

What I hate somehow is the proliferation of "scripting plugin interfaces" which are optional in the src bunch but are not opt-in switches in the actual packages. One example can be vim sucking in perl ruby python and what a not. Esp. annoying is the pyhon stuff visible in libxml2 and libxslt - not usefull at all. One measure to controll this is under FreeBSD to place the following inside

/etc/make.conf:
# Kerberes. What the heck I never saw this in use.
NO_KERBEROS=yes

# My own site specific additions:
WITH_MOTIF=     true
WITHOUT_PYTHON= true
WITHOUT_RUBY=   true

# Options for openoffice-pl:
WITH_BSD_JDK=TRUE
WITH_TTF_BYTECODE_ENABLED=YES
WITH_GIF_LZW_COMPRESSION=YES

# Options for Java
NATIVE_BOOTSTRAP=yes



Howver I strongly think that the WITHOYUT_PYTHON and
WITHOUT_RUBY items at least should be the defaults.

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