> On 10. Sep 2017, at 08:01, Josh Grosse <j...@jggimi.net> wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:09:37AM +0200, Niels Kobsch??tzki wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to install tarsnap today but in the packages I could only find >> tarsnap-gui (and in the packages for 6.2-beta tarsnapper). The >> installation fails because they cannot find tarsnap. > > Licensing decides whether an application can be packaged for distribution. > The Ports build subsystem uses licensing variables to determine if packages > can be distributed. <snip>
>> 2) Why are there packages that depend on ports? > > Most tarsnap-gui users would prefer to install from a binary package, > as tarsnap-gui is a complex application, with 165 build dependencies. <snip> Thanks for the thorough explanation :) Niels
