Doug Barton wrote:
Norberto Meijome wrote:
[...]
And since we are just wishing for things, It'd be nice to have an
opportunity to back off from a install/remove after calculating
dependencies, such as that provided by yum (it shows everything it
will do and asks for confirmation before proceeding. )
portmaster has the --show-work option that gives you output like this:
===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
===>>> Starting check for all dependencies
===>>> Gathering dependency list for sysutils/fusefs-ntfs from ports
===>>> Installed archivers/unzip
===>>> Installed converters/libiconv
===>>> Installed devel/gmake
===>>> Installed devel/libtool15
===>>> NOT INSTALLED devel/libublio
===>>> Installed devel/pkg-config
===>>> NOT INSTALLED lang/ruby18
===>>> NOT INSTALLED sysutils/fusefs-kmod
===>>> NOT INSTALLED sysutils/fusefs-libs
===>>> NOT INSTALLED textproc/ruby-deplate
Is that what you had in mind? That is currently a separate operation
because for ports with a lot of dependencies it can take a long time to
build the list. But I suppose that if there is interest I could create a
new mode of operation to do that check first, then confirm with the user
that they want to proceed.
Yes, it would be useful to me. Sometimes old ports comes with new
default options and brings new dependencies which I do not want to have
installed with update / upgrade of port, but it is not easy to track
these changes. If portmaster will have option to firstly show above info
about dependencies and wait for confirmation, I will use this feature.
Maybe in combination with some advanced logic: if all dependencies are
installed, continue without confirmation, if some dependency is missing,
wait for my confirmation.
What you think about it?
Miroslav Lachman
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