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From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
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Subject: Re: Broken _DEPENDS logic
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Short of editing mail/mailman/Makefile and building the port is there a
way force 'pkg install' to just install a package and ignore its
dependencies?  The man page doesn't indicate any such logic (a difference
from other package managers).

Roger



> Found why mailman is trying (and failing) to reinstall postfix and it
> appears to be a bug in other ports as well.
>
>  # cd /usr/ports/mail && grep '_DEPENDS+=.*postfix' */Makefile
>  dk-milter/Makefile:RUN_DEPENDS+= 
> ${LOCALBASE}/libexec/postfix/smtpd:${PORTSDIR}/mail/postfix-current
>  dk-milter/Makefile:RUN_DEPENDS+= 
> ${LOCALBASE}/libexec/postfix/smtpd:${PORTSDIR}/mail/postfix
>  drac/Makefile:RUN_DEPENDS+=     postfix:${PORTSDIR}/mail/postfix
>  enma/Makefile:RUN_DEPENDS+= 
> ${LOCALBASE}/libexec/postfix/smtpd:${PORTSDIR}/mail/postfix-current
>  enma/Makefile:RUN_DEPENDS+= 
> ${LOCALBASE}/libexec/postfix/smtpd:${PORTSDIR}/mail/postfix
>  mailman/Makefile:BUILD_DEPENDS+= 
> /usr/sbin/postconf:${PORTSDIR}/mail/postfix
>  mailman/Makefile:RUN_DEPENDS+=  /usr/sbin/postconf:${PORTSDIR}/mail/postfix
>
> Shouldn't these ports be querying the pkg db rather than checking for a
> particular file, particularly when the file is incorrectly specified?
>
> Roger
>