Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

Ulrich Spoerlein uspoerlein at gmail.com
Wed May 16 10:10:31 UTC 2007


On 5/16/07, Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:13:41AM +0200 I heard the voice of
> Ulrich Spoerlein, and lo! it spake thus:
> >
> > True, true. And as pointed out above, if you don't build the INDEX
> > with your current pkg options, it is useless anyway.
>
> Oh, worse.  If you don't build INDEX with your current _installed
> system_, it's "useless".  A good number of ports detect installed
> things.

Oh, thanks for pointing this out. I completely forgot about this, as
the nail I want to hammer has to do with chrooted pkg-builds, so no
"pollution" is taking place.

Uli


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