Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 20:49:30 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: "James E. Flemer" <jflemer@uvm.edu> Subject: Re: Why are implicit package dependencies recorded? Message-ID: <200505082049.31145.lofi@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200505082044.52084.lofi@freebsd.org> References: <427E4687.40901@uvm.edu> <200505082044.52084.lofi@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sunday, 8. May 2005 20:44, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > Both of these cases can be avoided by building P with the same flags > > that D was built with. In the simple case, that does not seem like a > > bad solution, but in practice there can be a huge number of deps and > > sub-deps (mplayer has around 45). Ah, I've been reading too fast again. Yes, all packages in a dependency-chain will have to be built to match. It would be possible to make the pkg_* tools smarter in order to avoid that, but at the moment quite everything (from pkg_* to the package cluster scripts) relies on prerecorded (or pre-generated, i.e. INDEX) sub-deps. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCfl87Xhc68WspdLARAuGMAJ9Y7bfSpIO9Hd1RVwgaKuMIrUgegwCfbK64 qSsknxJDT/C4ru7/KO25zKI= =5Lyu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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