Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 04:20:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disabling dependency on esound in ports builds Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0505210418560.15677-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <20050520160010.1c9c3ebe@dolphin.local.net>
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On Fri, 20 May 2005, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I really don't know what to suggest, or where such a discussion might > lead if we were to pursue it again, but it certainly does seem that > there's ample opportunity for some major cleaning up in the area of port > dependencies. The current approach just seems rather heavy-handed, if > you ask me. There should be some facility for a more fine-tuned > approach, leaning more in the direction of "when in doubt, leave it > out", rather than the current "throw it in just to be sure" methodology. All it requires is the mythical Someone who has lots of time to run regression tests on a cleaned-up ports tree. I recommend Joe Marcus' tinderbox scripts as an appropriate building block. mcl
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