On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 08:55:42PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > is there a way to do a "make extract" without checking > > > dependencies? > > > > this would actually be seriously useful, e.g. if someone wants > > to grep over the whole ports tree source. I've done this a few times > > for people (e.g. looking for things which use brk/sbrk) and it would > > be hugely easier if dependencies didn't need to be installed. > > As have I. Defining NO_DEPENDS mostly does it, but you have to > install a few ports from archivers that are required to extract the > distfiles of some ports. That's when I miss FreeBSD's EXTRACT_DEPENDS.
Well, having more varied dependencies is just confusing. It's a deliberate choice to not have EXTRACT_DEPENDS and jumble them together as build dependencies...
