On Monday, 3 October 2016 at 20:41:08 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > > On 10/03/16 19:21, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 3 October 2016 at 14:14:13 +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >>> Le 01/10/2016 à 04:35, Julian Elischer a écrit : >>>> Such a 'minimum' install should probably be the default when coming >>>> in as a dependency, as there is an increasing tendency to configure >>>> things with all the bells and whistles. >>> The bare minimum will never be the default. The default is what will >>> fit most people, so that they can use our packages out of the box. >> Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I recently installed a new >> version of firefox, and I was amazed by the number and nature of the >> dependencies. It totalled 497 MB, including: >> >> Fetching chromium-52.0.2743.116_1.txz: .......... done >> Fetching opera-12.16_6.txz: .......... done >> Fetching apache-openoffice-4.1.2_9.txz: .......... done >> Fetching libreoffice-5.0.6_3.txz: .......... done >> Fetching gimp-2.8.18,2.txz: . done >> Fetching hugin-2016.2.0.txz: .......... done >> Fetching mplayer-1.3.0.20160912_1.txz: .......... done >> Fetching samba42-4.2.14.txz: .......... done >> Fetching emacs24-24.5_3,3.txz: .......... done >> >> Chromium? Opera? Emacs? Both OpenOffice and LibreOffice? >> >> I don't know if this always happens, but there's an issue here. I >> have a few unfinished thoughts about how it could occur, but so far >> all I can confirm is that there is an issue. >> >> Is there a way to display these dependencies in a tree structure? > > $ make -C /usr/ports/www/firefox all-depends-list > /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg > /usr/ports/devel/nspr > /usr/ports/devel/gmake > ...
That isn't a tree. It also doesn't show the dependencies I mentioned above. And yes, I ran it locally. On reflection, it's probably because firefox requires an update to a library used by other packages, so they need to be upgraded too. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger g...@freebsd.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA
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