On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:31:18AM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:09:06 -0500, Jeremy Messenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:50:09 -0500, Alexey Shuvaev >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> <snip> >>> IMHO gio-fam-backend should not be implicit dependency. Otherwise why >>> not to install all existing non-conflicting libraries just to ease >>> maintainer's life :-> >>> FWIW x11-toolkits/gtkdatabox2 (PR 116120) do not need gio-fam-backend. >> >> Well, all ports should depend on gio-fam-backend. The gio is included and >> part of glib20. marcus had to split gio out of glib20 package to avoid >> circle dependency of glib20 -> gamin (FAM replacement) -> glib20. If >> marcus doesn't split and you guys will have that gio library anyway.
Thanks, somewhat much clearer now. I had some feeling that gio-fam-backend is freebsd specific. How many chances are there to account for existence of gamin upstream? (So to avoid glib -> gamin -> glib circular dependency) > > Uh, I should have check in glib20 and gio-fam-backend before I made that > comment. I thought that gio (libgio-2.0.so) is in gio-fam-backend, but not > it's in glib20. The gio-fam-backend only installs libgiofam.so and FAM > support is option in glib configure. I don't think it will be easy to make > optional (maybe I am wrong) with that split. Remove gio-fam-backend > dependency is going to hurt some users if they want some missing fuction(s) > of it. > So configure option is not enough. Does separating gio-fam-backend by original developers solve the problem better? Alexey. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
