> On 10. Sep 2017, at 08:01, Josh Grosse <josh@jggimi.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:09:37AM +0200, Niels Kobsch??tzki wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to install tarsnap today but in the packages I could only find
>> tarsnap-gui (and in the packages for 6.2-beta tarsnapper). The
>> installation fails because they cannot find tarsnap.
>
> Licensing decides whether an application can be packaged for distribution.
> The Ports build subsystem uses licensing variables to determine if packages
> can be distributed.
<snip>
>> 2) Why are there packages that depend on ports?
>
> Most tarsnap-gui users would prefer to install from a binary package,
> as tarsnap-gui is a complex application, with 165 build dependencies.
<snip>
Thanks for the thorough explanation :)
Niels
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