From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Sep 15 12:23:36 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E92E2E12D4C for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:23:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jakub_lach@mailplus.pl) Received: from n6.nabble.com (n6.nabble.com [162.255.23.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA54665407 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:23:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jakub_lach@mailplus.pl) Received: from n6.nabble.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by n6.nabble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A581B3E442 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:23:35 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:23:35 -0700 (MST) From: Jakub Lach To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1505478215829-0.post@n6.nabble.com> Subject: port building make config dialog dependencies idea MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:23:37 -0000 Hello, After many years of using FreeBSD ports, I've grown into habit of reading Makefiles each time I'm not sure if any options I'm proposed pulls in dependencies or not. And then it hit me. Why should we do that? Port system already knows if something pulls another part of it, why those build options are not marked somehow? Ideally, described (installs xxx/xxx) or just by another colour, just marked by "*" even. Am I'm missing anything? -- Sent from: http://freebsd.1045724.x6.nabble.com/freebsd-ports-f3835061.html