On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 04:25:24PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Marc Espie wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 03:30:46PM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote: > > > Third, RUN_DEPENDS only ports are forbidden, ask espie@ about that. > > > > One day, the bugs in pkg_add -u will be stomped, and then you will be able > > to do just that. > > > > Right now, RUN_DEPENDS only when things change is a rather nice recipe for > > lots of update problems. > > > > I'm not sure sis-gnome is a good idea either. > > It is a very bad idea, but do we have a choice ?
Update is probably going to be a bitch. Go ahead, write a meta-pkg for gnome. I'm not sure it will fare so good with updates. Then again, with manual installs, it might be slightly better off than it used to be. But hey, when you run into library updates issues, it might take a while until I fix the darn bugs.
