Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:21:48 -0500 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Superfluous dependencies Message-ID: <20110313012148.GA36742@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <20110312221233.GD79028@comcast.net> References: <AANLkTik65O3gbUoVBM-YbjWu0dpq0OuNn2KoUaC5b5ov@mail.gmail.com> <4D76426A.2010006@secnap.com> <AANLkTi=j7fR%2BRm4Fy14Q_KPDyE%2B7%2BO_d3pd3Yaek=kJG@mail.gmail.com> <20110312215307.GB26099@lonesome.com> <20110312221233.GD79028@comcast.net>
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:12:34PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Sat 12 Mar 2011 at 13:53:07 PST Mark Linimon wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:28:40AM +0100, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > >> If anybody is interested I could consolidate my results and post a few patches. > > > >I would like to see them. > > > >This is the kind of really-dull-but-necessary work that we need to have > >people work on to fight the creeping dependencies :-) > > A few minutes ago, I was answering a post on the forums, in which a user > expressed surprise (and outrage) that the phpmyadmin port was installing > libX11 and similar things on his server. By installing it myself and > then using "pkg_tree -v" to examine the dependencies, I was able to > narrow it down to two of the port's options that were ON by default. > > I'm not aware of any tool that will display a similar dependency tree > for a port *before* it is installed. "make all-depends-list" creates > exactly what it suggests, a list, and doesn't show any of the > hierarchical info that is needed to answer questions like the one I was > working on. If there is such a tool, I'd love to hear about it. > Otherwise, it might be an interesting and useful project for someone to > take a stab at. There is always the "missing" target to show you what is currently missing if a particular port were to be installed with whatever options you have chosen. I use this target regularly, because I'm often too lazy to read OPTIONS and other knobs. -- WXS
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