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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: freebsd dependency problem with freebsd-mk-defs
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:39:00
Message-Id: 20090725073831.GB18895@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Re: freebsd dependency problem with freebsd-mk-defs by Michael Yang
1 On 24-07-2009 19:53:41 -0400, Michael Yang wrote:
2 > I tried masking sys-process/pidof-bsd in package.mask, and the build
3 > proceeded. From the pidof utility website at
4 > http://people.freebsd.org/~novel/pidof.html,
5
6 Seems like this dependency was recently added. You don't need this
7 sys-freebsd stuff in Prefix.
8 I fixed this in the tree now. Thanks.
9
10 > "The pgrep(1) utility appaired [sic] in FreebSD 5.3 provides the same
11 > features and is much more powerful than pidof, so you might consider
12 > using it instead."
13
14 It doesn't matter having pidof, especially on Darwin where it's missing
15 in the host system.
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18 --
19 Fabian Groffen
20 Gentoo on a different level