On 2017-11-20, at 9:21 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2017-11-21 04:02 , Ken Cunningham wrote: >> A recent commit of Dave's made me wonder if should we add a callback >> dependency for something like >> >> depends_build-append bin:git:git >> >> to the github portgroup? >> >> I looked in there, expecting to see one, but didn't. > No, I don't see why that would be needed. Many ports using the github > portgroup don't use git at all, and those that do usually use it for > fetching only. > > - Josh
I guess it's true that even with the github portgroup, most of the fetching is via tarball, I get it. OK, we can add it manually to those ports that actually do some git fetching. Thanks, Ken