Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:05:21 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEPENDS -- is it time to remove it? Message-ID: <20070104150520.GF16049@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <459D08CA.7060104@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <459D08CA.7060104@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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--iBipwI8N6cjWJAiJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:01:46PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: >=20 > Dear all, >=20 > The ports make infrastructure has a whole series of variables for showing > how one port depends on another: LIB_DEPENDS, BUILD_DEPENDS, RUN_DEPENDS > etc. Amongst these is what looks to me like the vestigial remnant of > an earlier phase of the ports: the plain, unmodified 'DEPENDS' variable. >=20 There is also a PR against this: ports/99724. Unfortunately, it hasn't made it into an -exp run on pointyhat yet as other patches had higher priority. It is on the TODO-list however, you are completely right that it should be removed. Cheers, -erwin --=20 Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Security is like an onion. (o_ _o) It's made up of several layers \\\_\ /_/// erwin@FreeBSD.org And it makes you cry. <____) (____> erwin@aauug.dk --iBipwI8N6cjWJAiJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFnRewqy9aWxUlaZARAj2SAKCZ91y4Leb2nCr74VvxNIajvpshoACdFwlr P1YS58NYED35KgEDEb/Q1gM= =1k/v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --iBipwI8N6cjWJAiJ--
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