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-appendbin: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
