Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:00:01 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/multimedia/acidrip Makefile ports/math/algotutor Makefile ports/sysutils/apt Makefile ports/graphics/asciio Makefile ports/devel/autodia Makefile ports/www/awffull Makefile ports/devel/bazaar Makefile ports/www/bigbluebutton Mak Message-ID: <CAF6rxg=Wnh90=Nr0iuaz_HjWfenavuq1FqAHJ6Q3KpQs4sUrHA@mail.gmail.com>
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2012/1/22 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 05:40:15PM +0000, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> eadler 2012-01-21 17:40:15 UTC
>>
>> Log:
>> At the moment 1385 ports use BUILD_DEPENDS= ${RUN_DEPENDS} and 450
>> ports use BUILD_DEPENDS:= ${RUN_DEPENDS}. This patch fixes ports that are
>> currently broken. This is a temporary measure until we organically stop
>> using := or someone(s) spend a lot of time changing all the ports over.
>
> Thanks for using correct way of assigning rdeps to bdeps. Can you elaborate
> on the last sentence of the log? Why should we stop using :=? Instead, we
> should fix portlint(1) to offer this obvious thing instead of duplicating
> two variables like it bogusly does now.
The concern is that someone would add something extra to BUILD_DEPENDS
without thinking about it and thus add extra bogus RUN_DEPENDS. I'm
uncertain if there other additional reasons that portmgr dislikes :=
--
Eitan Adler
Source & Ports committer
X11, Bugbusting teams
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