From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 12:05:25 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 E185A16A469 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:05:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A83F513C448 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:05:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.28]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 14 Jun 2007 08:05:26 -0400 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.8.3-GA) with ESMTP id ITZ97908; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:05:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 65-78-26-179.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([65.78.26.179]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 14 Jun 2007 08:05:21 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18033.12033.969102.280191@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:05:21 -0400 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070614075418.GA8093@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20070614070602.GD39533@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200706140714.l5E7EK0U023767@smtpclu-1.eunet.yu> <20070614075418.GA8093@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Subject: Re: Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports 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, 14 Jun 2007 12:05:26 -0000 Jeremie Le Hen writes: > My request is more subtle, I think. To quote the old television show: "Insufficient data, Captain." I don't recall _any_ piece of port management software recording, or even understanding, the difference between a port "installed automatically" and one "installed manually". (Could be wrong here.) If this is so, then one /might/ be able write code to track this ... somehow. My off-the-cuff analysis is any solution will involve a) manual intervention while manually installing ports and/or b) increased complexity in the code. In view of the recent thread (on current@ ??) in which many people were willing to trade /decreased/ complexity for faster execution time, I'd say you have a long way to go before this gets committed. (A carefully considered exposition of what the problem is, why it's a problem for many people, and how a proposed solution might work, submitted here, would be a good start.) Robet Huff