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Date:      Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:45:30 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>
Cc:        ashish@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: recent portrevision bump for libvpx
Message-ID:  <4F3E761A.5020105@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CABzXLYPoETzgy7QVtqbPK1q_XYv=zanDX%2B9jP6ARb8xhgorX1A@mail.gmail.com>
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on 17/02/2012 13:04 Olivier Smedts said the following:
> 2012/2/17 Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>:
>> On 02/17/2012 02:14, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> Speaking about FreeBSD ports' current way of recording dependencies and
>>> overzealous portrevision bumping.
>>
>> We're way to aggressive about recording grandchild dependencies.
>> Repeated calls for this to be addressed have been ignored.
>>
>> Meanwhile you can put EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS= true in make.conf which
>> helps quite a bit for keeping your local /var/db/pkg tidy.
> 
> For me (526 ports installed, KDE4 and a long time
> EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS user), I only had to portmaster libvpx and
> ffmpeg.

I assume you report what you had to do before all the revisions were bumped?

> # cat /var/db/pkg/libvpx-1.0.0/+REQUIRED_BY
> ffmpeg-0.7.11_3,1
> 
> pkg_libchk reports nothing else needing libvpx...
> 

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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