Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:13:06 +0200 From: Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: DEPENDS -- is it time to remove it? Message-ID: <20070105081306.GA74111@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> In-Reply-To: <20070104150520.GF16049@droso.net> References: <459D08CA.7060104@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20070104150520.GF16049@droso.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 16:05:21 +0100, Erwin Lansing wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:01:46PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > 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. > > > 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. One thing that can be done in the meantime is to remove DEPENDS from those 3 ports that still use it. So things are nice and tidy when time comes to edit bsd.port.mk. -- Vasil Dimov gro.DSBeerF@dv % It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFFngiSFw6SP/bBpCARAlwlAJ42OyAbt35BPhYXfyTco50OrECBwwCeLk7S WogUUS1wL+GH8K09Ci8nCTw= =0P33 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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