Christoph Moench-Tegeder writes:
> ## Robert Huff (roberth...@rcn.com):
>
> > On a system with over 850 ports, 32 starting with "p5-", the
> > list of dependent ports portmaster created from
> > "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.24" was over 200, including things like
> > FireFox and llvm50 (llvm is required for mesa-dri).
>
> That sound like "too much". I've 1408 ports installed, of which 90
> are named p5-*, and "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.26" shows only 32 ports.
>
> Did you rebuild everything along the build-dependencies, or does your
> build tool use the run-depdendencies?
> There had been a time when ports had way too many dependencies registered,
> if my memory serves right that was because many build-dependencies were
> recorded as run-dependencies (or there was no distinction at all). Is
> that a leftover effect from those times?
"Insufficient data, Captain."
I followed the instructions for portmaster from
UPDATING/20171103, only changing the version numbers.
Running "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.26" now produces 13 items;
this makes your explanation plausible, if not authoritative.
Again, thanks.
Robert Huff
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