Possible error in the dependency list of "kde4-kile"

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Wed Jul 23 06:37:33 PDT 2014


On 23/07/14 14:30, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Wednesday July 23 2014 07:57:24 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> The server that converts the portindex into the database format that the web site uses runs Linux. So the web site will show ports as they would appear on a Linux machine. The kde4-kile port uses the kde4 1.1 portgroup which uses the qt4 1.0 portgroup which adds the dependency qt4-mac on OS X and the dependency qt4-x11 on other operating systems.
>
> MacPorts exists on Linux??
>
>> It would be nice if the database were populated by a machine running OS X so that this discrepancy would not exist, but some years ago our hosts Mac OS Forge decided to change as many servers as possible to Linux, so that's where we are at the moment.
>
> In any case, I presume it's not impossible to let kile depend on qt4-X11, at least if it still builds against the latest KDE version (4.8?) that builds against Qt 4.4.3 ...

No thank you. I wouldn't want to have to install qt4-X11 just to satisfy 
a dependency of kile, that isn't really needed on OSX...



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