Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:41:39 -0600 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Frank Corrao <fcorrao@temp555.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make describe problems - kde Message-ID: <200403071841.39749.linimon@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <20040307082835.GA8633@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040307024018.T3512@caspian.temp555.com> <20040307082835.GA8633@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:28 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Running 'make index' is not supported unless you have the full ports > collection. There are just too many interdependencies to make it > practical to support building consistent indices with subsets of the > ports collection. Coincidentally, I did a little research on this the other day, for similar reasons. My conclusion is that we have very few 'leaf categories' -- even fewer than even I suspected. They are the following: all languages (*except* japanese) astro benchmarks biology finance mbone picobsd x11-themes The ones I was surprised to find were *not*: cad (audio, french) dns (mail) irc (x11) japanese (comms, editors, mail, sysutils, www) news (mail) palm (mail) science (french, graphics) shells (many, via bash2 and zsh) x11-clocks (x11, x11-wm) In any case: If the need for an entire hierarchy to do 'make index' is not sufficiently explicit in the handbook(s), it ought to be made so. If anyone forwards me pointers to documentation that says 'it's ok to just load part of the ports hierarchy', I'll be glad to write up PRs for them. (I'll probably never get around to it unless someone provides them :-) ) mcl
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