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Date:      Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:56:34 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk>, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk
Message-ID:  <20070806065634.GA31676@rot26.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070806074318.q9mw6ulngg00gwsw@webmail.leidinger.net>
References:  <200706281553.l5SFr56i099807@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070802181715.46yikycm8gc8g8kk@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070803125410.GB1062@tirith.brixandersen.dk> <200708032144.57558.lofi@freebsd.org> <20070803204215.GA68620@rot26.obsecurity.org> <20070806074318.q9mw6ulngg00gwsw@webmail.leidinger.net>

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:43:18AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> >>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.
> 
> That's a bug in those ports IMHO. And that's the reason why this  
> feature is not enabled by default.
> 
> >Yes.  I'm not even convinced this feature is a good idea.
> 
> "Not a good idea" as in "is not usable yet" or as in "it should never  
> be the goal to be usable"? If it is the former, I agree (see above).  
> If it is the later please elaborate (having correct dependency  
> information should always be a good idea, I think the benefits are  
> obvious, aren't they?).

Both: we're not there yet, and I don't see why this implementation is
the best way to get there :) Did I miss your discussion of the
proposal?

Kris



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