Fwd: MacPorts using its own libs

[William Davis]

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> From: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at berkeley.edu>
> Date: December 7, 2007 9:40:12 PM EST
> To: William Davis <frstan at bellsouth.net>
> Cc: Adam Mercer <ramercer at gmail.com>, X11 List Mailing <x11-users at lists.apple.com 
> >
> Subject: Re: Xquartz version change?
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2007, at 18:09, William Davis wrote:
>
>> er...Adam, thats a feature, not a bug.  ;) See the MacPorts FAQ via www.macports.org
>> But that FAQ entry needs updating, and perhaps the policy itself  
>> needs review ..... In any event, it was felt that MacPorts was  
>> doing a better job keeping the libs up-to-date.  I say this for  
>> information only. If you want to discuss this you find competent  
>> folks on the macport-dev mailing list.
>
> Well that's not the case as the macports version of render-proto is  
> out of date and causes xserver to not compile when it is used.
>
> Why not have it be a lib dependency like you do for libX11?
> lib:libX11.6:xorg
>
> so port:fontconfig would become:
> lib:libfontconfig.1:fontconfig
>
> You could easily do this with a smart sed script.
>
> --Jeremy



William Davis
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