On 03/12/2011 18:13, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Charlie Kester<corky1...@comcast.net> wrote:
A few minutes ago, I was answering a post on the forums, in which
a user expressed surprise (and outrage) that the phpmyadmin port
was installing libX11 and similar things on his server. By
installing it myself and then using "pkg_tree -v" to examine the
dependencies, I was able to narrow it down to two of the port's
options that were ON by default.
I'm not aware of any tool that will display a similar dependency
tree for a port *before* it is installed. "make all-depends-list"
creates exactly what it suggests, a list, and doesn't show any
of the hierarchical info that is needed to answer questions like
the one I was working on. If there is such a tool, I'd love to
hear about it.
Would something along the lines of "make -n fetch-recursive"
help at all? I would expect it to walk the dependency tree
in a predictable order.
The problem with the pre-existing targets is that they do not take the
user's choices in OPTIONS into account. portmaster's technique (while
not perfect) at least does that.
Doug
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