On 03/08/04 23:31 Robert McMeekin wrote: Hi Robert,
If something depends on opt/xfree86, for example, I usually put 'xfree86' as a dependency and assume that the other things like fontconfig and freetype2 are already installed. Is this the right thing to do, or should I be adding all the packages to the dependencies line?
Yes, I think this is what the clc guidelines say. Btw, I just noticed the guidelines also express the possibility of avoiding listing opt ports (together with base); if I remember well we more or less decided to have /opt listed in dependencies so a little correction is needed.
Wow, 44% of the ports in contrib failed. That doesn't look very good. Perhaps there could be a third category of 'UNTESTED' (or something) for the ports that didn't even start to get built because previous dependencies failed.
I think many of them would successfully build on a 'more standard' system (with all or the most common ports from opt installed), so the situation might not be so bad as it appears from statistics. Regarding 'UNTESTED', I think it is a good idea, I'll see if I can add the distinction you suggested in next versions of the test script. regards, Simone -- Simone Rota WEB : http://www.varlock.com Bergamo, Italy MAIL: sip@varlock.com