On 05/02/10 15:28, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On 5/2/10 5:19 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 05/02/10 03:21, Koop Mast wrote: >>> One of the scripts provided by devel/glib20 is a perl script. That is the >>> reason why >>> we need perl. >> >> Thanks for the response, couple things come to mind. First, how many >> things actually make use of those perl/python scripts? If the number is >> small they should probably be OPTIONS that default to off, or slave >> ports as Thomas suggested. > > The script (glib-mkenums) is actually very important to almost all ports > which depend on glib. Yes, what Thomas suggested could be done with > some considerable work. What might be better is to have someone versed > in shell scripting translate this script to sh. I think the GNOME guys > would be fine to accept that.
Please note that I'm not overwhelmingly interested in this particular case. I'm more concerned about the general problem of grandfather dependencies. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"