Hello. I'm brand new to FreeBSD. I'm mostly enjoying it so far. I'm
playing with installing the Eclipse IDE port right now. I say playing
with because I started to install it and saw the list of dependencies
and shuddered. I like to keep my system relatively clean and tend to
start a new install of Linux (and now BSD) as bare bones and add only
what I need.
So I'm building Eclipse, and one of the things it wants to include is
python . Seems odd for my java ide to need python, so I look it up on
the web tool that shows all the dependencies for a port (which is a
fantastic tool, by the way). And python is included because glade is
included, and glade seems to be a top-level dependency. However,
nowhere can I find in the Makefile any reference to Glade, nor to the
many other "top-level" dependencies. How do I find out these things and
once I find them, how do I change them so I don't include? (Mozilla is
another example, but this one I actually see in the Makefile for the
Eclipse port. However, make config and make configure don't ask me if I
want mozilla -- I use firefox).
This applies generally. I installed other ports too that had odd
dependencies (like including perl because of some helper scripts that
aren't even required to be run). Is there a command I'm missing that
let's me configure these things?
On a side note, is the name "pretty-print-build-depends-list" designed
to keep me from running the command? ;-) And after typing all that,
the output wasn't really even pretty.
thanks for any tips. Sorry if this is a dumb question, I've been using
FreeBSD only two days now. Currently I run slackware.
mike
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