Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

Pav Lucistnik pav at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 13 22:43:50 UTC 2007


Stephen Montgomery-Smith píše v ne 13. 05. 2007 v 17:32 -0500:

> I have looked into making the registration and package-building process 
> even faster.  It seems to me that the easiest way would be to redesign 
> the package database so that it also includes a 
> package-name/+DEPENDENCIES file, which would be a kind of reverse of 
> package-name/+REQUIRED_BY.  This could be used instead of "make 
> package-depends" in creating PKG_ARGS in bsd.port.mk.  Creating 
> +DEPENDENCIES would be very easy - you "cat" together the files of the 
> immediate dependencies ${RUN_LIB_DEPENDS} and do a "uniq" to the final 
> result.

Sounds like a plan.

Also, it would fix part of a long standing problem, that dependencies
are recorded according to the ports tree, not according to a real state
of affairs on the victim's computer.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

Define universe and tell me three examples.
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