Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:52:56 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Maslan <maslanbsd@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg_add doesn't keep dependent pkgs Message-ID: <47312888.1070400@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <319cceca0711061758m786918c1y2594e7a11e91d873@mail.gmail.com> References: <319cceca0711030605m370709d1ua0c694d12dbb1766@mail.gmail.com> <47301ADA.3080509@u.washington.edu> <319cceca0711061227h6dbaf2fdib03a962aae7ddad1@mail.gmail.com> <4730D640.3080304@u.washington.edu> <319cceca0711061758m786918c1y2594e7a11e91d873@mail.gmail.com>
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Maslan wrote:
> That would be great.
> I'll wait for the patch
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2007 1:01 PM, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> 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
That's assuming (IIRC) pkg_add doesn't invoke libfetch related APIs
directly and extract straight to the command line. It may take a bit
more work than I initially think, but a patch *should* be trivial to create.
-Garrett
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