Hi, On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:05:23 +0300, Jukka Heino wrote:
Hi,
When building every single port in contrib I noticed that some of them depend on packages that either don't exist or are unmaintained. > [list]
So in my opinion maintained ports shouldn't depend on unmaintained or non-existant ports. The current situation is of course understandable, since most of the GNOME stuff isn't maintained anymore. But in general I propose we move towards a uniformly maintained contrib with no dependencies on other collections than base, opt and contrib itself. There used to be a unwritten rule that packages should not have "downward dependencies", where the order top to bottom is base, opt, contrib and unmaintained. Now that unmaintained has been suffering a lot in recent times, I guess this got lost a bit. So I perfectly agree with you that we should define clear rules about dependencies (also for httpup ports).
Furthermore, we should drop unmaintained :-) https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/clc-devel/2004-September/000610.html Kind regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Bern, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net