Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:53:27 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@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: <4F1CE7C7.5040706@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxg=Wnh90=Nr0iuaz_HjWfenavuq1FqAHJ6Q3KpQs4sUrHA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxg=Wnh90=Nr0iuaz_HjWfenavuq1FqAHJ6Q3KpQs4sUrHA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/22/2012 08:00, Eitan Adler wrote:
> 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.
That's just plain stupid. We don't remove useful tools because
developers might make a mistake with them, especially one that's so
incredibly unlikely to happen.
> I'm
> uncertain if there other additional reasons that portmgr dislikes :=
Hopefully before any more changes are made there will be public
discussion about it.
Doug
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