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Re: xephyr on netbsd-9



On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 11:48:23AM +0000, nia wrote:
 > Adding:
 > 
 > BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.xorgproto+=       xorgproto>=2022.2
 > 
 > seems to cause a cascade of Things We Do Not Want, including using
 > libX11 from pkgsrc. Why? xorgproto is a build-only dependency.
 > Does anyone understand what's going on here?

I haven't checked but I expect it is the logic for forcing non-native
descendent packages not knowing about build-only dependencies.

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David A. Holland
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