Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:44:53 -0700 From: Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu>, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports Message-ID: <4674AE35.9070000@sasktel.net> In-Reply-To: <20070617011612.GW1173@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20070614070602.GD39533@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200706140714.l5E7EK0U023767@smtpclu-1.eunet.yu> <20070614075418.GA8093@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200706142322.l5ENMbZt009741@smtpclu-6.eunet.yu> <20070615121125.GH1173@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4673B353.5040006@sasktel.net> <20070616114154.GA56829@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20070617011612.GW1173@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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>> If thingYYY detects SDL and uses it at configure stage, it should be >> recorded in the dependency list. >> > > Agreed, but this situation is not easy to detect with the automated > ports checks that are in place. > Impossible even since we're not using automated tools. > Yes - but since it requires the maintainer to manually determine what > features are automatically detected and enabled, it is something that > is error-prone - the maintainer could easily accidently overlook it. > A maintainer needs to do this anyways. >> exists or not, nothing would prevent the user from deinstalling SDL >> and break thingYYY otherwise. >> > > Unfortunately, I can't think of any way to automatically detect this > situation. This means that we are basically limited to waiting for > people to trip over instances of the problem and report it. > Of course, simply not automatically deinstalling SDL would help out quite a bit. If I decide to remove SDL, all the results of that are my fault. If removing portXXX also removes SDL, I can blame the ports system for removing stuff out from under me.
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