pkgdb -F (was: Re: editors/AbiWord2: configure error /libgnomeprint-2.2)

[Matthew Donadio]

Randy Bush wrote:
> it would seem to me that the transitive closure of the dependency
> graph is traversable, and the needed data are present in the ports
> tree.  why do we keep doing this manually?

I have no idea how it happens, but I occasionally get circular
references in the pkgdb.  Also, you have to remember that what you have
in /usr/ports may not be the same as what you have installed due to
cvsuping the tree and holding off on rebuilding.  Another complication
are the various build options (ie, WITH_LAME, WITH_GTK2, WITHOUT_LDAP,
etc).

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Matthew Donadio (m.p.donadio at ieee.org)