Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports

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Stephen Hurd wrote:
> 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.

When I want to use Software that is not in ports, I get it into the ports tree.