Re: packages question

2007-01-29 Thread Will Maier
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:56:44PM -0800, Daniel E. Hassler wrote: > Is it reasonable to assume all of the dependencies for a package > should also be available as either packages or via ports? Yes. Some ports have licenses which prohibit redistribution as packages, though, so N(ports) > N(package

Re: packages question

2007-01-29 Thread Darren Spruell
On 1/29/07, Daniel E. Hassler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Is it reasonable to assume all of the dependencies for a package should also be available as either packages or via ports? In my experience, yes. In most cases a package, although there exist some ports that can't be packaged for red