Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:12:02 +0300 From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> To: Reko Turja <reko.turja@liukuma.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> Subject: Re: How to remove erroneous deps from pkgng Message-ID: <CA%2B7WWSc5rVB6PGXTbxGYH51LaQ5f_7oNzA55SMd41OydFi3KnA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50098EEF.8040801@shatow.net> References: <D0056D18EAAD41119F26D0715FA52FB6@Rivendell> <50098EEF.8040801@shatow.net>
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> wrote: > On 7/20/2012 11:57 AM, Reko Turja wrote: >> I'm testing out the pkgng system and somehow a port managed to pull >> devel/pkg-config into one low level port polluting whole db. "pkg check" >> just wants to install the annoying thing. Is there any way to get rid of >> that erroneous dependency? > > Which port is pulling it in? > >> >> In production system, these kind of errors should be somehow >> correctable, especially if pkgng is to be used with ports as well. > > If the port defines invalid dependencies, it's not pkgng's problem, it's > the port. > >> >> -Reko >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- > Regards, > Bryan Drewery > bdrewery@freenode/EFNet > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I think this is the effect of "recursive dependencies". If port B directly depends on port C and A directly depends on B, then port A has both ports B and C as its dependencies. Replace C with devel/pkg-config and you get the picture. The port devel/pkg-config is used in many ports, there's no harm in installing it.
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