2012/2/17 Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org>: > On 02/17/2012 02:14, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> Speaking about FreeBSD ports' current way of recording dependencies and >> overzealous portrevision bumping. > > We're way to aggressive about recording grandchild dependencies. > Repeated calls for this to be addressed have been ignored. > > Meanwhile you can put EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS= true in make.conf which > helps quite a bit for keeping your local /var/db/pkg tidy.
For me (526 ports installed, KDE4 and a long time EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS user), I only had to portmaster libvpx and ffmpeg. # cat /var/db/pkg/libvpx-1.0.0/+REQUIRED_BY ffmpeg-0.7.11_3,1 pkg_libchk reports nothing else needing libvpx... -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: oliv...@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas." _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
