Hi Marc, Marc Espie wrote on Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 03:05:36PM +0200:
> Actually, not having recursive depends easily available on an installed > package base is somewhat tedu-ish. Heh. :-) > Most specifically, it's not very useful for anything in common usage. What > would you want it for ?... sure it's nice information, but in practice, > unused dependencies from former ports get gc'd with pkg_delete -a... > > ... and if you're actually tinkering with dependencies, it's generally > related to the ports tree proper, and there is a plethora of targets in > there... along with indeed, sqlports which can give you all the info that > you need, assuming a bit of sql magic. Those look like good points. I think you are right that the occasional times i was looking for lists of recursive dependencies where when i was working on some port, not when i was merely using a package, so going to the ports tree and running make(1) didn't cause any real inconvenience. I think your explanation helps to understand the choice to not provide this particular knob better. And yes, i definitely appreciate that it's a very complex task to keep all the moving parts of the pkg/dpb system working reliably, including for all the special cases needed for such a large tree. Yours, Ingo
