Subject: Re: buildlink3?
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/02/2005 10:57:19
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hi,

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:23:23AM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> So, I'm trying to build py-musique...
> virtually my entire system to be rebuilt (and freaks me out having to
> replace packages that contains libs that other packages - that I spend
> ages updating for depend on)...
>=20
> So I figured I'm missing something and tried reading up on buildlink
> and such.
>=20
> x11/gtk2/buildlink3.mk says
>=20
> BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.gtk2+=3D	gtk2+>=3D2.4.0
> BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.gtk2+=3D	gtk2+>=3D2.6.4nb1
>=20
> which means that gtk2 2.4.0 or later should be ok?

ABI-wise, yes.  security-wise, no.

> I have 2.6.4 installed, but its charging ahead downloading and
> building 2.6.7 - and everything that that depends on.
>=20
> Is there in fact a way to tell pkgsrc to just use what's already
> installed and make do?

set IGNORE_RECOMMENDED.

also please note that IGNORE_RECOMMENDED is mostly bumped for security
fixes and it is the case for x11/gtk2/buildlink3.mk, too.


regards,

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