From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 12:57:06 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 9AF9716A405 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:57:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D47F13C45E for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:57:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A5FC6A.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.252.106]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EFDC2E237; Wed, 16 May 2007 14:57:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (webmail.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34AB5B48A3; Wed, 16 May 2007 14:56:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l4GCujEa057684; Wed, 16 May 2007 14:56:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 16 May 2007 14:56:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20070516145645.k8elgn5pw8s8wso8@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:56:45 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: "J. Porter Clark" References: <20070516112532.GA23292@auricle.charter.net> In-Reply-To: <20070516112532.GA23292@auricle.charter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) / FreeBSD-7.0 X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.864, required 8, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -15.00, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 12:57:06 -0000 Quoting "J. Porter Clark" (from Wed, 16 May 2007 =20 06:25:32 -0500): > 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? No. And just recording the first order dependencies would be a =20 sensible approach to get this information. But this is just one more =20 reason why first order dependencies would be better than the current =20 recording of everything. The problem not discussed so far is: some ports may not have all first =20 order dependencies. So anyone wanting to change this should install a =20 tinderbox and start testing fixing those ports. Bye, Alexander. --=20 On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. =09=09-- W.C. Fields' epitaph http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137