From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 7 01:58:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493AC16A417 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 01:58:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maslanbsd@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F141413C481 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 01:58:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maslanbsd@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so1378739nzf for ; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:58:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=lL4uW4unrWF9v4K/EiGdnT32zxDgFl3Qs8PSiSnGB58=; b=BntqeJWxdyMDxl8vvpm28y+HxccRj++3sO0LXIYQvxKSWQ+XdQjkI3aKuEDpvoaoy2iRHxH1AlEmRxVn0IzGhd/Yf4u9cgfcG6/uxZ/ZwyKkT4lBCJNoHnMN/MyEqhSfMTGtnigxA02Ym7KMI2rQMtzvXlavkal6hM2FOV3O+BI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=A9jZU6HLha8RVJxYSWsvcTYGcmkMXkp3P+7QKUGmYsnOqAJ6z6VAYnyjdqniOTiwlwdrRN4gwe2EZGNtk3AXJ7h+qHyyuZVsE5q9kjF9+vLREIN91zUXl/EHpT5GuTphoHmj0ZETLBvIc+FJzN78nsGzyv87xMofCcOGmRUYsDU= Received: by 10.142.44.11 with SMTP id r11mr1902859wfr.1194400690944; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.33.14 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:58:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <319cceca0711061758m786918c1y2594e7a11e91d873@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:58:10 -0800 From: Maslan To: "Garrett Cooper" In-Reply-To: <4730D640.3080304@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <319cceca0711030605m370709d1ua0c694d12dbb1766@mail.gmail.com> <47301ADA.3080509@u.washington.edu> <319cceca0711061227h6dbaf2fdib03a962aae7ddad1@mail.gmail.com> <4730D640.3080304@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: pkg_add doesn't keep dependent pkgs X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:58:20 -0000 That would be great. I'll wait for the patch On Nov 6, 2007 1:01 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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 > -- System Programmer -- I'm Searching For Perfection, So Even If U Need Portability U've To Use Assembly ;-) -- http://libosdk.berlios.de