Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:16:12 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Cc: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net> Subject: Re: Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports Message-ID: <20070617011612.GW1173@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20070616114154.GA56829@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20070614070602.GD39533@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200706140714.l5E7EK0U023767@smtpclu-1.eunet.yu> <20070614075418.GA8093@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200706142322.l5ENMbZt009741@smtpclu-6.eunet.yu> <20070615121125.GH1173@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4673B353.5040006@sasktel.net> <20070616114154.GA56829@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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--tNQTSEo8WG/FKZ8E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2007-Jun-16 13:41:54 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> wrote: >On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:54:27AM -0700, Stephen Hurd wrote: >> All of this rather assumes that *everything* is installed from ports.= =20 >> 1) install portXXX which requires SDL, so SDL gets sucked in >> 2) build thingYYY (which uses configure and only uses SDL if it's alrea= dy=20 >> installed - common) manually and install it > >If thingYYY detects SDL and uses it at configure stage, it should be >recorded in the dependency list. Agreed, but this situation is not easy to detect with the automated ports checks that are in place. > I suppose this is up to the >maintainer to deal with this Yes - but since it requires the maintainer to manually determine what features are automatically detected and enabled, it is something that is error-prone - the maintainer could easily accidently overlook it. >exists or not, nothing would prevent the user from deinstalling SDL >and break thingYYY otherwise. Unfortunately, I can't think of any way to automatically detect this situation. This means that we are basically limited to waiting for people to trip over instances of the problem and report it. --=20 Peter Jeremy --tNQTSEo8WG/FKZ8E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGdItc/opHv/APuIcRAoBrAKCYVu2YQQ3SjAvQfnjGrxawuBUC0ACeMqiv XU2TsSiAnA4fngfg+VfAbFQ= =QHRI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tNQTSEo8WG/FKZ8E--
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