Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:22:28 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl help needed Message-ID: <23231.60932.88889.811581@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20180331193720.GB49814@elch.exwg.net> References: <23230.34285.577403.66846@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20180330194344.GA75894@elch.exwg.net> <23231.49189.726411.702039@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20180331193720.GB49814@elch.exwg.net>
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Christoph Moench-Tegeder writes: > ## Robert Huff (roberthuff@rcn.com): > > > On a system with over 850 ports, 32 starting with "p5-", the > > list of dependent ports portmaster created from > > "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.24" was over 200, including things like > > FireFox and llvm50 (llvm is required for mesa-dri). > > That sound like "too much". I've 1408 ports installed, of which 90 > are named p5-*, and "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.26" shows only 32 ports. > > Did you rebuild everything along the build-dependencies, or does your > build tool use the run-depdendencies? > There had been a time when ports had way too many dependencies registered, > if my memory serves right that was because many build-dependencies were > recorded as run-dependencies (or there was no distinction at all). Is > that a leftover effect from those times? "Insufficient data, Captain." I followed the instructions for portmaster from UPDATING/20171103, only changing the version numbers. Running "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.26" now produces 13 items; this makes your explanation plausible, if not authoritative. Again, thanks. Robert Huff
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