From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 8 12: 8:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi (h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi [193.166.84.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F84A37B405 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:08:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chu@gpi.ru) Received: from gpi.ru (chu@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi (8.11.5/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f78J8Du55023; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:08:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from chu@gpi.ru) Message-ID: <3B718E1C.A1DFC8FA@gpi.ru> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 22:08:13 +0300 From: Vladimir Tchoukharev X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en, fi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" Subject: Re: docs/29517: Handbook missing fast method of cleaning ports. References: <3B711DA8.A067D92A@gpi.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > > > > cd /usr/ports && NOCLEANDEPENDS=yes make clean > > > > Your way is even faster, I guess, but this one is > > along the traditional approach. > > Hmmm. I guess that should be > > cd /usr/ports && /bin/sh NOCLEANDEPENDS=yes make clean > > so csh users can use it. Right. Or else cd /usr/ports && make -DNOCLEANDEPENDS clean > But that NOCLEANDEPENDS isn't even documented in the > /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk header where the other targets and envars are > described. (I'll do a PR on that too.) It is documented in man 7 ports, but I agree it would not hurt to have it explicitly described in bsd.port.mk too. > I like your argument about the traditional approach, but would only like > it enough for normal use(rs) if it was made into a new target, say > clean-partial, clean-fast, or clean-work. Users will be much more > likely to be able to remember the generic "find" approach to deleting > the work directories which they probably already know and should learn > anyway. It's much easier to remember "work" than "NOCLEANDEPENDS". > > But feel free to refer it to the mailing list or whoever handles this > PR. I still don't fully understand how this PR process works. > > BTW, should I consider mail to only me about PRs to be private and > shouldn't be copied to the public lists without permission? You > may repost this. (Maybe I'll put that in my now-empty signature file.) It was just by a mistake, sorry. Best regards, V. Tchoukharev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message