make describe problems - kde

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 02:48:51AM -0500, Frank Corrao wrote:
> Recently a number of ports began including lines such as this:
> 
>  .include "${PORTSDIR}/x11/kde3/Makefile.kde"
> 
> When one runs 'make describe' on such a port, perhaps indirectly by
> calling portsdb -Uu, make describe [expectedly] will error out if this
> file doesn't exist.

Running 'make index' is not supported unless you have the full ports
collection.  There are just too many interdependencies to make it
practical to support building consistent indices with subsets of the
ports collection.

Kris
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