On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:58:00AM -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > > On 1/21/12 12:32 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> As it stands now, if I don't have gnome-session then this port will not > >> bring in the gnome stuff for me. What if I want it to bring in gnome? > >> There is no way for this port to conditionally bring in gnome for me. If > >> it sees I already have gnome it will honor that but there is no way for > >> me to say "I don't have gnome, but please bring in the necessary parts > >> and register dependencies for me". > > In addition, what if I have GNOME on the box I'm building on but would > > like to build a port for a box without GNOME? > > > > Automagical dependencies should be avoided. > > > all good points, and I think that since the maintainer uses merkaartor > (hopefully), and knows what the most important or common deployments > are, maybe we should engage him in the conversation. > > Would you suggest I open a PR? or would it be better for wxs/ and/ or > eadler to open one and carefully describe what you think the behavior > would be? (yes, we all love/hate GNATS.. but at least it makes sure the > maintainer gets involved in the decisions)
I don't have time right now to open a PR but feel free to do so Eitan or Michael. I, personally, don't care what the solution is as long as it gets fixed. ;) -- WXS _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"