On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:32:40AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Just to clear up a misconception; this isn't actually a sysinstall > problem. This is a ports bug which Satoshi or somebody introduced > when they added a dependency on the XFree86 port very prematurely. It
I can claim a bit of the responsibility. It was done after Sue Blake complained that there was no way to distinguish packages requiring X from those that didn't. I wrote some extended message discussing different types of dependencies, and then Satoshi wrote the change. However, my archives show I pointed-out the problem (with possible solutions) from the start. Perhaps I would have been more urgent if I'd forseen the future, but it's one of those things you look at and figure "ah, it's so Freaking obvious that someone will fix it". The change was made long before the release and there was plenty of time to fix any breakage. It was just never fixed. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
