Re: pkg/29799: ...pkgsrc/graphics/SDL_image has bogus GLUT dependency.

[Richard Rauch <rkr%olib.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 06:46:05AM -0800, Ben Collver wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 02:30:00PM +0000, rkr%olib.org@localhost wrote:
> > >Synopsis:       ...pkgsrc/graphics/SDL_image has bogus GLUT dependency.
> 
> SDL_image depends on SDL, which in turn depends on GLUT.  I am not sure
> if the dependency is bogus.  What is the problem?

SDL_image, itself, has no GLUT references.  All GLUT functions and
other symbols have either a "glut" or "GLUT" string prefix to their
names.  Whether SDL itself truly requires GLUT, I don't know.  But
there is no direct link from SDL_image to GLUT.

The problem is that the more dependencies there are, the more likely it
is that you'll get the dreaded cascade of rebuilds, and that the
cascade may extend further.

I also thought that I had read that pkgsrc was trying to cut back on
explicitly listing indirect dependencies.  So even if there is a real
indirect GLUT link via SDL (I haven't checked), shouldn't SDL_image
only list as depends those things that it directly depends upon?


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