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Date:      Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:04:13 +0100
From:      Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: message for port developers
Message-ID:  <ef60af09050129100468034b7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200501291147.17252.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <ef60af090501290942568a3cbe@mail.gmail.com> <200501291147.17252.kirk@strauser.com>

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:47:02 -0600, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 29 January 2005 11:42 am, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> 
> > Cant be that hart to do or am i mistaken ?
> 
> Unfortunately, you're mistaken.  Some of those option screens would cause new
> ports to be installed, so before building the top-level port you'd have to
> recursively walk the dependency list to configure those other ports, store
> the user-chosen options somewhere, and then re-walk the dependency list to
> actually build them.
> 
> Sure, it *could* be done, but I imagine it'd involved a huge amount of effort.
> --
> Kirk Strauser

So any plans for tomorow :P



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