Hi, On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 00:46:25 -0500, Victor wrote:
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. In my opinion contrib shouldn't depend on having unmaintained available. I usually even disable unmaintained completely on my systems so some ports in contrib fail because of this.
- bmp depends on libglade (unmaintained) - electricsheep depends on xscreensaver (unmaintained) - gal depends on libgnomeprintui and libgnomeui (unmaintained) - madwifi depends on linux (doesn't exist)
Linux was a "virtual" port for referencing the linux kernel, unless I made a mistake here (Johannes?) Well, if there would be a port for the kernel sources, we could probably alias it to 'linux' or something else. I'm not aware of this though, but I expect people have built their own kernel anyway, so we might actually just drop the dependency and take a note in the README that if the compilation fails, it might be because of the missing kernel sources (or if they're expected to be in /usr/src/linux, check for it in build()).
Kind regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Bern, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net