[31434] trunk/dports/x11/gtk2/Portfile

Randall Wood rhwood at mac.com
Fri Nov 30 01:22:12 PST 2007


The assumption that a user wants the entire X11 stack installed for  
him is not deterministically true. I will not and can not force a  
user to install X11 if they do not want to.

On 29 Nov 2007, at 19:18, Boyd Waters wrote:

>
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Eric Hall wrote:
>
>> If there's a way to specify 'gtk2 +x11' I'm all for adding
>> that to the wireshark (and other) ports, I don't think there is yet
>> (and I'm happy to be corrected).
>
>
> The issue of specifying variants on deps is very very important to  
> us here at NRAO, and I haven't figured out a way to do it yet.
>
> So if there's a way to do so, let me know how!
>
>
> Can't we just specify version and variant info in the depends list?
>
> example
>
> depends	gtk2+x11
>
>
> Alas this doesn't work as yet, but it would be the way to do it. It  
> would also be nice to specify a version:
>
>
> depends gtk2 at 2.10.6+aqua
>
>
> Actually you'd want to specify an 'at least' version. Hmm.
>
>
>   - boyd
>
>
> Boyd Waters
> Scientific Programmer
> National Radio Astronomy Observatory
> Socorro, New Mexico
> http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bwaters
>
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