Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:01:52 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Maslan <maslanbsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg_add doesn't keep dependent pkgs Message-ID: <4730D640.3080304@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <319cceca0711061227h6dbaf2fdib03a962aae7ddad1@mail.gmail.com> References: <319cceca0711030605m370709d1ua0c694d12dbb1766@mail.gmail.com> <47301ADA.3080509@u.washington.edu> <319cceca0711061227h6dbaf2fdib03a962aae7ddad1@mail.gmail.com>
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Maslan wrote: >> Package dependencies may change, depending on the user settings and >> port maintainers configuration for the port (i.e. Makefiles). The same >> sort of applies to packages as well. >> Or were you referring to just packages instead of ports based >> package metadata :)? >> Or maybe a better question is: what are you trying to accomplish? >> -Garrett >> >> > > The problem is that i always try FreeBSD snapshots, and each time i > did a fresh install, i found my self in need to install xorg & gnome. > so when i use pkg_add -rK xorg or pkg_add -rK gnome, it just keeps the > package itself only without its dependencies, it would be better for > me to keep the packages i use rather than downloading them every time. > > The ports has no problem with that, since it leaves all the port > dependencies in /usr/ports/distfiles but i prefer packages than > recompiling every time i install a fresh system something like gnome > would eat my day compiling it. Hmm... that is indeed silly. Let me see if I can fire up a patch for that little issue sometime either next week or the week after to fix that. -Garrett
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