From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat Jul 21 00:50:04 2007
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC7F16A41B
	for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:50:04 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com)
Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A550B13C46A
	for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:50:04 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com)
Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128])
	(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
	(No client certificate requested)
	by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2F651931
	for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:50:02 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:49:59 +0100
From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070721014959.2a166237@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <46A1068A.3010004@FreeBSD.org>
References: <46A05B21.90603@u.washington.edu>
	<46A0711F.2020200@infracaninophile.co.uk>
	<46A1068A.3010004@FreeBSD.org>
X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps
X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:50:04 -0000

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:01:30 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> FWIW, the -r option for portmaster only rebuilds those ports that
> depend directly on the new version, not things that depend on the
> things that depend on it.

When portmanager was changed to work this way it seemed sensible. I've
become a bit sceptical about it since I saw a post in this list that
went something like: X always depends on A, B and C, so don't bother
having your port depend on these if it depends on X. I wonder how many
direct dependencies are omitted in this way.