On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 23:09 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm looking at the use of portmaster to upgrade perl versions, and > noticed that there are a ton of ports listed as dependent on perl that > don't have any use for it, including one of mine: > > qbittorrent-2.2.6 >> libnotify-0.4.5_3 >> atk-1.28.0 >> > gio-fam-backend-2.22.4 >> gamin-0.1.10_3 >> glib-2.22.4 >> > perl-threaded-5.8.9_3 > > Taking a look at devel/glib20, I see this: > USE_PERL5= yes > > although from the docs in the glib tarball it's not at all clear (to me > anyway) what it's used for. Given that it doesn't seem to be a rundep > for glib20 it's also not at all clear to me why qbittorrent should have > a pkgdep for it.
One of the scripts provided by devel/glib20 is a perl script. That is the reason why we need perl. -Koop > Can someone please explain what the heck is going on here? (And please > note, I'm picking on glib20 because this seems to be a particularly > egregious example, but I'm really more interested in the problem generally.) > > > Doug > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
