On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 08:22:16AM +0300, Lars Engblom wrote: > I do not agree that it is useless as it gives the information that > something is wrong. Without a report, the problem might even slip > into a release. When I noticed the problem, I was in real hurry and > a friend wanted to quickly send me a file through IM. I wrote the > report one day later on another computer, not remembering what > dependency was missing. > > What I did was: > 1. pkg_add -i pidgin (picking the gtkspell flavor) > 2. running it, noticing it halting because of missing dependencies > 3. pkg_add -i amsn > 4. pidgin suddenly working after adding amsn > > At this moment I have no time to set up a chroot and test out what > was missing. If I would have had the time, I would have been doing > it already. And no, I have not done anything to break anything, and > this was with ready compiled packages in snapshot.
You can also look in your system logs to see what packages adding amsn pulled as dependencies, one of them is probably the missing hidden dep. Landry
