From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 11:53:40 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 C779916A400 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 11:53:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clarkjp@charter.net) Received: from mail.cluebytwelve.org (clueby12.org [198.186.190.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A629013C484 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 11:53:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clarkjp@charter.net) Received: from localdomain.local (24-158-190-156.dhcp.jcsn.tn.charter.com [24.158.190.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cluebytwelve.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 708781B5C7 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 06:25:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: by localdomain.local (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 37A9FB85B; Wed, 16 May 2007 06:25:32 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:25:32 -0500 From: "J. Porter Clark" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070516112532.GA23292@auricle.charter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Newsgroups: mailing.freebsd.ports User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? 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: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:53:40 -0000 What I don't like about the flattening of the dependencies is that there seems to be information loss; that is, I can't figure out why one port (e.g., gweled) requires another port (e.g., cdrtools). Is there any tool to unflatten the dependencies? -- J. Porter Clark