On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
Hi,
Hallo,
I'd like to rename core/pkgconfig to core/pkg-config, since the name of the package changed upstream (see http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/).
pkgconfig is currently listed in ~5 ports' dependency lists, so these could be easily updated.
However, I think pkg-config should be treated as an essential package, since it's used by so many packages these days. That way, we could drop it from all of the depency lists ;)
Any objections to renaming the port
No
and removing it from any dependency list?
Yes, at least at the moment ;-) I think we should first find a reasonable solution how to deal with core dependencies. To keep the thinks simple I'd suggest to list only runtime but _no_ buildtime dependencies. A exception from this can/should be glibc, because it's needed by every programm. If we go for this, all the build stuff like gcc, make, libtool, sed etc. must be installed to build ports. Open question here is where/how we list/mark these ports, to give the users an overview about these core-core ports ? kind regards Jürgen -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux