Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:49:35 -0700
From: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
To: ports@FreeBSD.org
Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: patch to have make clean not recurse in ${PORTSDIR}
Message-ID: <20020426204935.GA42922@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020424191430.W62277-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com>
References: <20020424224454.GM88736@elvis.mu.org> <20020424191430.W62277-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com>
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Doug Barton wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Maxime Henrion wrote:
>
> > Currently, if you do a ``make clean'' in /usr/ports, it will recurse
> > through each port's dependencies and clean them too.
>
> This has been discussed at great length on various lists. The two
> answers to your question are, A) You can already do what you want to do,
> with an option that allows you NOT to do it if for some reason you
> actually WANT to repetitively clean dependencies,
I never said my patch was bringing new functionality, the point is to
change a default which doesn't make any sense IMO. However, it has a
side effect of breaking the case where you actually want to clean
dependencies repetitively when in /usr/ports, as mentioned in my mail
already. I also said that I can change it so that it's still possible
to do it, if I was given a good reason to do so.
> and B) The fastest way
> to clean up your ports tree is not to use make at all, it's:
>
> find /usr/ports -type d -name work -exec rm -r {} \;
I'm well aware of that, and I use something similar often. You could
also use -maxdepth and -mindepth so that it's even better, as somone
already noted. You could also use portsclean or whatever, this is not
the point at all. This patch is _not_ a performance patch, it's a patch
to have "make clean" in /usr/ports behave as expected, some could say
intelligently.
Are these two reasons all what was given when this has been discussed
previously ? Honestly, they doesn't make sense to me.
Cheers,
Maxime
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