[29735] trunk/dports/x11/gtk-engines2/Portfile

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Le 9 oct. 07 à 03:30, Randall Wood a écrit :

>  A couple of notes on this port:
>
> This big dependency chain was introduced because of a note that gtk- 
> engines2 broke if it was installed on a clean machine (ie one that  
> did not have GNOME installed on it first).
>
> After the gettext upgrade fiasco, where I was maintaining some  
> ports (port A) where the dependency chain was A => B => C => D => E  
> => gettext, but all ports A-E were linked to it by E's requirement,  
> only E had the explicit dependency and so A-D had to be manually  
> reinstalled. It seems smart to be overly explicit about  
> dependencies in these cases.
>
> That said, there may be some overkill here, but I'm not sure how to  
> determine what is and what isn't overkill.
>

I usually go through the configure.(ac|in) file and grep sources  
around for #include preprocessor directives to figure out which are  
real dependencies and which aren't.

> On 8 Oct 2007, at 17:43, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>
>
>
> Randall Wood
> rhwood at mac.com
> http://shyramblings.blogspot.com
>

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