Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:05:48 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? Message-ID: <4646FF1C.8020807@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <140873687.20070513155857@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> <20070512174011.GA22526@xor.obsecurity.org> <1996124170.20070513151450@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4646FC39.7080501@gmx.de> <140873687.20070513155857@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello [LoN]Kamikaze, > Sunday, May 13, 2007, 3:53:29 PM, you wrote: > > > LK> the decision has been made long ago > I want to understand: WHY has such decision been made? > Then I suppose you should take a look at CVS and have a look way back in time when ports were first conceived. My guess is that it makde some things easier to implement, like 'make clean' or package fetching with all dependencies.
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