Macports "broken by default" (Re: gnome-vfs missing dependencies?)

[Randall Wood]

It is often the case that others may suffer from build failures or  
crashes that a port maintainer is not capable of reproducing.

That said, the port HAS been fixed. See the output below.

Getafix:~ rhwood$ port info dbus
dbus 0.61, Revision 2, devel/dbus (Variants: with_qt, with_mono)
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus

{A message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one  
another.}

Library Dependencies: glib2, libxml2
Platforms: darwin
Maintainers: macports-dev at lists.macosforge.org
Getafix:~ rhwood$ port provides /opt/local/lib/pkgconfig/dbus-glib-1.pc
/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig/dbus-glib-1.pc is provided by: dbus
Getafix:~ rhwood$ port info gnome-vfs
gnome-vfs 2.16.0, gnome/gnome-vfs (Variants: darwin_6, darwin_7,  
use_system_dependencies)
http://www.gnome.org/

This is the GNOME Virtual File System. GNOME VFS is currently used as  
one of the foundations of the Nautilus file manager.

Library Dependencies: gnome-mime-data, gconf, howl, neon, dbus,  
openssl, libidl
Platforms: darwin
Maintainers: macports-dev at lists.macosforge.org rhwood at macports.org

On 4 Oct 2006, at 03:29, Wolfgang Keller wrote:

>> dbus-glib-1 is the glib bindings for dbus. dbus 0.61 includes the
>> bindings in that port.
>
> Well, then you better fix that portfile really soon now.
>
> I don't want to flame, but...
>
> Do you guys actually test _anything_ before releasing it to the  
> public?
>
> Do you actually want to be taken for serious?
>
> If so, you better start to use some methods of what is generally  
> called
> "release management" really soon now.
>
> Until then, I'll personally consider Macports as inexistant,  
> because unusable
> for actual use. As basically _most_ of the ports are broekk at any  
> given
> moment and a quick "sudo port upgrade installed" can even break  
> things that
> were previously working.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wolfgang Keller
>
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Randall Wood
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