Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:42:15 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> Cc: Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <20070803204215.GA68620@rot26.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200708032144.57558.lofi@freebsd.org> References: <200706281553.l5SFr56i099807@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070802181715.46yikycm8gc8g8kk@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070803125410.GB1062@tirith.brixandersen.dk> <200708032144.57558.lofi@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:44:56PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Friday, 3. August 2007, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:17:15PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > Quoting Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk> (from Thu, 2 Aug > > > 2007 > > > > > > 16:17:10 +0200): > > >>> Feature: > > >>> - allow to only register explicit dependencies, disabled by default > > >>> (EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS=whatever_you_want) > > >> > > >> Can you elaborate a bit on this new EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS feature? > > >> Perhaps give a usage example or two? :) > > > > > > What about diffing the output of "make actual-package-depends" and "make > > > actual-package-depends -DEXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS"? > > > > > > Simple Example: > > > > > > Port A depends upon B > > > Port B depends upon C > > > > > > Without the feature: > > > Port A registers dependencies to ports B and C > > > > > > With the feature: > > > Port A registers dependendcy to ports B > > > > Great, then it's just the feature I needed :) Thank you for the > > explanation. > > Not sure this can work reliably enough to be usefule at present, at least for > the specific scenario of avoiding unnecessary recompilations. I think there > are just too many ports with implicit dependencies, especially in the > KDE/GNOME domain. Yes. I'm not even convinced this feature is a good idea. Kris
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