Friday, February 11, 2011

Dependency Hell

Last login: Fri Feb 11 01:20:48 on ttys000
mac:~ user$ sudo port install libusb-devel +universal
--->  Computing dependencies for libusb-devel
--->  Dependencies to be installed: autoconf help2man gettext expat libiconv gperf ncurses ncursesw p5-locale-gettext perl5 perl5.8 m4 automake git-core curl curl-ca-bundle libidn openssl zlib pkgconfig p5-error python27 bzip2 db46 gdbm readline sqlite3 rsync popt libtool

You need all this shit just to get a usb library working? Opeen Soooouuuuuurce!!!!

Its like I'm really in Linux!

2 comments:

  1. You need 2 versions of Perl and Python? What's next, gcc? ...oh wait, it wants gperf.

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  2. Only one specific version of python is needed, but it does need two versions of perl.

    gcc, probably not since macports already knows that gcc is already installed via xcode.

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