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Date:      Thu, 25 Aug 2016 21:18:54 +1000
From:      Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris Rees <crees@physics.org>, Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r420828 - head/net/py-nnpy
Message-ID:  <d205d495-22d3-8de6-4ef6-dc127974f359@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <A7253FA3-A709-44D0-B9A8-1723F060E308@physics.org>
References:  <201608250020.u7P0K1GM086639@repo.freebsd.org> <5416C91F-F57A-4078-8E6A-A15CC195C1DC@physics.org> <50b13de1-ee2a-40ad-69e0-39eb6beed1fc@FreeBSD.org> <A7253FA3-A709-44D0-B9A8-1723F060E308@physics.org>

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On 25/08/2016 8:34 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> 
> 
> On 25 August 2016 11:32:13 BST, Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
> wrote:
>> On 25/08/2016 6:26 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
>>> You should really either expand BUILD_DEPENDS before assigning
>>> it, with := or assign BUILD_DEPENDS to RUN_DEPENDS instead. Doing
>>> that avoids pollution from later additions such as extra USES
>>> only used for build etc.
>> 
>> I think this may be prior advice, and I remember a flurry of
>> mailing lists posts in the past about := that may or may not have
>> been resolved permanently. See Also: 'MY_DEPENDS' in the Porters
>> Handbook.
>> 
>> The other option is to duplicate the lines, which I'm not impartial
>> to either.
> 
> How can this have been resolved??  Make evaluates lazily, which is
> why it works for us!


Exactly why I said I wasn't sure if it ever 'resolved' :)

Some said := is cool, others said no, something something something,
MY_DEPENDS turned up in the PH. I use none of the above so as not to
bother *anyone*.

> Chris
> 




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