On 6/12/07, Joachim Schipper  wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:23:06PM +0200, Jaap Versteegh wrote:

> > >>Furthermore, I don't want to install X and surely apr-util doesn't need

> > >>to depend on it.

> > >

> > >it does, because it uses expat, and that's where expat comes from in

> > >-current.

> > That explains the need for the 'depend' from the point of view of the

> > apr-util Makefile developer.

> > From an overall or user perspective, the need for any package that uses the

> > expat xml parser to depend on the xbase package, is still entirely unclear.

> > For one: this dependency was never neccessary in the past. Shouldn't expat

> > not just go into /usr/lib ?

>

> Well, OpenBSD's dual system for dealing with software ('base' and

> 'ports') could be criticized, but unless you want to do that, there is

> no more sensible way to do this. The alternative would be to require

> someone to install a port before installing X, which makes even less

> sense.

>

> Really, this is a non-problem. Just install the whole base system,

> including at least xbase, and be done with it.

I follow current by installing binary snapshots and pre-compiled packages.
fetchmail also depends on expat.
Because I don't want the complete xbase41.tgz I just extract the expat libs

and put them in a site41-hostname.tgz
#!/bin/sh
VERSION=41

HOST=diogenes

TARBALL=site${VERSION}-${HOST}.tgz
tar xvzpf xbase41.tgz -C /tmp \*expat\*

tar cvzf $TARBALL -C /tmp usr

tar tvzf $TARBALL
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During the snapshot install this file gets selected automatically.
Snippet from the install:
Select sets by entering a set name, a file name pattern or 'all'. De-select

sets by prepending a '-' to the set name, file name pattern or 'all'. Selected

sets are labelled '[X]'.
        [X] bsd

        [X] bsd.rd

        [ ] bsd.mp

        [X] base41.tgz

        [X] etc41.tgz

        [X] misc41.tgz

        [X] comp41.tgz

        [X] man41.tgz

        [ ] xbase41.tgz

        [ ] xetc41.tgz

        [ ] xshare41.tgz

        [ ] xfont41.tgz

        [ ] xserv41.tgz

        [X] site41-diogenes.tgz
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=Adriaan=