[kde-freebsd] coreutils

brunomaximom at openmailbox.org brunomaximom at openmailbox.org
Mon Dec 15 22:11:41 UTC 2014


Em 2014-11-05 10:25, Schaich, Alonso escreveu:
> On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:09:06 -0200
> brunomaximom at openmailbox.org wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> I notice coreutils is a dependency for kde, specifically kdepim. But I
>> tried to build kdepim removing the coreutils from Makefile and it 
>> builds
>> fine. Which are the needs to depend on coreutils? Could coreutils be
>> removed from KDE?
>> And what about gcc and bash? Are they necessary too? I have tried to
>> change my default shell to /bin/sh on Debian + KDE and KDE stopped to
>> log in, but here FreeBSD I use /bin/sh as default and KDE works
>> perfectly. So why bash dependency? KDE cannot work with native FreeBSD
>> components, besides FreeBSD has its own "coreutils" and shell?
>> 
>> Thanks for answer.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> KDE doesnot depend on GCC. A component of it, namely kactivitymanagerd
> needs C++11 support to build a working binary (it could build but
> failed at runtime), and C++11 support was originally only availible
> with ports gcc or WITH_CLANG_IS_CC - however the later became the
> default in FreeBSD 10, so there's no direct GCC dependency any more.
> Packages used by KDE could be depending on it though.

So, can you remove gcc from KDE dependencies? gcc package is big and KDE 
too, I see no reason to keep it there after your explanation or we lose 
packages resources removing it?
KDE has not bash dependency anymore. Just KDE Telepathy.
I am just trying to avoid redundant packages.



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