MacPorts and the joy of dependencies

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Oh, joy....
that's something that I didn't tougth that it will happen, but why the hell
avahi depends on gtk2 if it's something that doesn't use interface at all?


On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>
> <rant>
> So trying to get rid of the dependencies in Subsurface I replaced all of
> the glib functions with either handwritten functions, Qt functions or
> simply stopped using them.
> Of course with gettext we depend on libintl which is part of glib - but
> that's a topic for a different rant :-(
> Then I tried to remove my gtk2 port.
> Can't do that, it is needed by other packages.
> Ok, remove those. Among them avahi.
> Guess what depends on avahi? kdelibs4.
> And of course marble depends on that.
> So marble requires kdelibs requires avahi requires gtk2.
> </rant>
>
> Next task: building my own libmarble.
>
> /D
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