On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:49, Marc Espie wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:32:42AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: >> I was building a custom flavor of a port, using USE_PACKAGES, and some >> dependency required gmake to build. The package was used instead, but >> it looked like setting USE_GMAKE=Yes would have installed gmake. Is >> that correct? I already have gmake installed, I'm curious what would >> have happened, and more importantly, what should happen in this case. > > What are you talking about ? > > you're probably confusing USE_PACKAGES with something else. > > so there's probably more confusion...
oh, duh, yes. I have FETCH_PACKAGES=Yes in mk.conf. That's what I meant. Anyway, I deleted some things and repeated the experiment, and I think everything works correctly. Never mind. :)
