Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:36:39 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu>, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net> Subject: Re: Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports Message-ID: <20070617033639.GO2268@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20070617011612.GW1173@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20070614070602.GD39533@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200706140714.l5E7EK0U023767@smtpclu-1.eunet.yu> <20070614075418.GA8093@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200706142322.l5ENMbZt009741@smtpclu-6.eunet.yu> <20070615121125.GH1173@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4673B353.5040006@sasktel.net> <20070616114154.GA56829@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20070617011612.GW1173@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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--z3lzBUW4AuN+dmih Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 11:16:12AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2007-Jun-16 13:41:54 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:54:27AM -0700, Stephen Hurd wrote: > >> All of this rather assumes that *everything* is installed from ports.= =20 > >> 1) install portXXX which requires SDL, so SDL gets sucked in > >> 2) build thingYYY (which uses configure and only uses SDL if it's alr= eady=20 > >> installed - common) manually and install it > > > >If thingYYY detects SDL and uses it at configure stage, it should be > >recorded in the dependency list. >=20 > Agreed, but this situation is not easy to detect with the automated > ports checks that are in place. >=20 > > I suppose this is up to the > >maintainer to deal with this >=20 > Yes - but since it requires the maintainer to manually determine what > features are automatically detected and enabled, it is something that > is error-prone - the maintainer could easily accidently overlook it. >=20 > >exists or not, nothing would prevent the user from deinstalling SDL > >and break thingYYY otherwise. >=20 > Unfortunately, I can't think of any way to automatically detect this > situation. This means that we are basically limited to waiting for > people to trip over instances of the problem and report it. RPM-based Linux distros do this automatically for long time. They look into the list of shared libraries required by the package binaries and record them as dependencies. --z3lzBUW4AuN+dmih Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGdKxHC3+MBN1Mb4gRAnY4AKDbww7jzUVlxkQWziWWOTeaIC+WLQCgw+nk wY98ARzq9s6kD5L2GZhHrYU= =pDpG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z3lzBUW4AuN+dmih--
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