On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, B Briggs wrote:
Sorry to have to reply to my own post, but:
B Briggs wrote:
Like I said, running for a few days now, and no problems. The main
difference that I can see is what happens with +REQUIRED_BY with
portupgrade tools. For instance:
make deinstall && make install does not seem to update +REQUIRED_BY,
neither does make deinstall && portmaster /usr/ports/X/Y - there is no
+REQUIRED_BY after make deinstall. (This is probably because of make).
The only way to get REQUIRED_BY back is to run pkgdb -F, and I want to
remove portupgrade. So the question is, is REQUIRED_BY just a portupgrade
thing? If so, then I'd make a request that portmaster only uses the
IMMEDIATE requirements in that file, run depends list and build depends
list or maybe just run depends list. bitstream-vera is listed on a bunch of
my ports in REQUIRED_BY files, but it's only required in xorg-fonts-ttfonts
to run, and this comes from the x11/xorg metaport. On the other hand, if
+REQUIRED_BY is used for packages, then I can understand the recursive
dependency. Bottom line is that it's much more meaningful to me to see the
direct dependencies.
What I meant to say is that all of the +REQUIRED_BY files of the dependant
port are updated in this manner, not that the IMMEDIATE requirements of the
port are placed in its +REQUIRED_BY file. Sorry for any confusion.
As an example of bitstream-vera, I can remove it using make deinstall.
Firefox lists it as a dependency in +REQUIRED_BY, but it's not listed in
make build-depends-list run-depends-list.
Firefox will run just fine without it (albeit with crummy fonts)
Ok, I think I understand your point now, thanks. What portmaster does is
compare the contents of the +REQUIRED_BY file for a port with the @pkgdep
listings in the rest of the ports, and makes sure that they match up. It
does not try (and I don't think it should try) to use any kind of judgment
about which are the really important dependencies.
hth,
Doug
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