Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports

[Stephen Hurd]

Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:54:27AM -0700, Stephen Hurd wrote:
>   
>>  All of this rather assumes that *everything* is installed from ports. 
>>  1) install portXXX which requires SDL, so SDL gets sucked in
>>  2) build thingYYY (which uses configure and only uses SDL if it's already 
>>  installed - common) manually and install it
>>     
>
> If thingYYY detects SDL and uses it at configure stage, it should be
> recorded in the dependency list.  I suppose this is up to the
> maintainer to deal with this as whether the aforementioned feature
> exists or not, nothing would prevent the user from deinstalling SDL
> and break thingYYY otherwise.
>   

Hrm?  In step 2, "manually" meant "Not using ports"
That is to say that I downloaded it from Sourceforge myself, extracted 
it myself, built and installed it myself.

I do this fairly often.