Stephen Hurd wrote: > Jeremie Le Hen wrote: >> Hi Stephen, >> >> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:54:27AM -0700, Stephen Hurd wrote: >> >>> All of this rather assumes that *everything* is installed from >>> ports. 1) install portXXX which requires SDL, so SDL gets sucked in >>> 2) build thingYYY (which uses configure and only uses SDL if it's >>> already installed - common) manually and install it >>> >> >> If thingYYY detects SDL and uses it at configure stage, it should be >> recorded in the dependency list. I suppose this is up to the >> maintainer to deal with this as whether the aforementioned feature >> exists or not, nothing would prevent the user from deinstalling SDL >> and break thingYYY otherwise. >> > > Hrm? In step 2, "manually" meant "Not using ports" > That is to say that I downloaded it from Sourceforge myself, extracted > it myself, built and installed it myself. > > I do this fairly often.
When I want to use Software that is not in ports, I get it into the ports tree. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
