Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:41:48 -0700 From: Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Cc: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports Message-ID: <4674AD7C.3090603@sasktel.net> In-Reply-To: <20070616114154.GA56829@obiwan.tataz.chchile.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>
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Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:54:27AM -0700, Stephen Hurd wrote: > >> All of this rather assumes that *everything* is installed from ports. >> 1) install portXXX which requires SDL, so SDL gets sucked in >> 2) build thingYYY (which uses configure and only uses SDL if it's already >> installed - common) manually and install it >> > > If thingYYY detects SDL and uses it at configure stage, it should be > recorded in the dependency list. I suppose this is up to the > maintainer to deal with this as whether the aforementioned feature > exists or not, nothing would prevent the user from deinstalling SDL > and break thingYYY otherwise. > Hrm? In step 2, "manually" meant "Not using ports" That is to say that I downloaded it from Sourceforge myself, extracted it myself, built and installed it myself. I do this fairly often.
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