Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:52:09 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing stale dependencies (Was: Re: Concern about using pkg_delete -r) Message-ID: <20090111045209.GD5661@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0901100722g67c5200ex5552b2e19d1ae7d4@mail.gmail.com> References: <53980.67.177.142.45.1224810884.squirrel@ssl.eumx.net> <49681E6C.9060703@FreeBSD.org> <7d6fde3d0901100722g67c5200ex5552b2e19d1ae7d4@mail.gmail.com>
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--+B+y8wtTXqdUj1xM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2009-Jan-10 07:22:21 -0800, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote: >I just started using portmaster this past week, and it appears to go a >bit crazy removing dependencies -- there were a lot of libraries >broken after removing dependencies that shouldn't have been. This >could all be because of bad dependencies in the Makefiles though. This can also be caused by gnu configure scripts auto-detecting that optional (for that port) packages are installed and creating dependencies that aren't tracked by the FreeBSD ports system. This sort of thing can be very difficult to track down. --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --+B+y8wtTXqdUj1xM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklpevkACgkQ/opHv/APuIdlJwCfUEOeiAqfoMvQX71/JkzFT0yn ufEAoIYUN5rJ36uBVc/p/G0sEVb6X+5y =eXeS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+B+y8wtTXqdUj1xM--
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