From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 15:20:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D62B116A40F for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:20:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.droso.net [193.88.12.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930C813C45B for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:20:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 37F831CC09; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:05:21 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:05:21 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070104150520.GF16049@droso.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <459D08CA.7060104@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="iBipwI8N6cjWJAiJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <459D08CA.7060104@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 6.2-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: Re: DEPENDS -- is it time to remove it? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:20:04 -0000 --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--