Subject: Re: buildlink-x11 vs. imake
To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/06/2002 01:27:03
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:04:32AM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
>
> ===> xrn-9.01 uses imake, but the buildlink-x11 package was found.
> ===> Please deinstall it (pkg_delete buildlink-x11).
>
> (recent pkgsrc, on 1.5.2, in <pkgsrc>/news/xrn obviously)
>
> I understand that buildlink-x11 is some kind of meta-package
> that some packages depend on. However, as a pkgsrc end-user I don't
> really want to care about what it does. Does the above mean that
> when installing various X11 packages from pkgsrc, I alternatingly
> have to deinstall "buildlink-x11" manually for some packages to
> build correctly, while it then gets sucked in as a dependency by
> others? That would be rather annoying, imho.
The buildlink-x11 package is not used anymore. The message is a reminder
from pkgsrc to deinstall it as it will likely confuse current pkgsrc builds.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>