Subject: Re: Move of xemacs.
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Mario Kemper <magick@zhadum.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/16/2002 22:51:47
"Johnny C. Lam" <jlam@netbsd.org> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:12:44PM -0400, James Chacon wrote:
> > I asked the same thing back when this happened.
> > 
> > The problem is the motif buidlink forces USE_X11BASE which I disagree with.
> 
> From the logs, it looks like USE_MOTIF used to imply USE_X11BASE, so when
> motif.buildlink.mk was created to replace USE_MOTIF, it kept the same
> behaviour.  In retrospect, yes, I think this this is wrong.  We should go
> through pkgsrc and find packages that use Motif and see if they need
> USE_X11BASE or not on an individual basis.
> 
Yes, i second that. xemacs doesn't need to be in X11BASE. At least
this explains why xemacs is suddenly installed into X11BASE. Saved
me some hours looking in the wrong places.

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Mario Kemper
magick@zhadum.de