Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Wed May 16 16:45:53 UTC 2007


Quoting "Ulrich Spoerlein" <uspoerlein at gmail.com> (Wed, 16 May 2007 18:28:55 +0200):

> > The problem not discussed so far is: some ports may not have all first
> > order dependencies. So anyone wanting to change this should install a
> > tinderbox and start testing fixing those ports.
> 
> Hmmm, this is a red herring, no? A first order dependency is
> everything the port specifies in it's _DEPENDS variables. If you
> change the internal representation of the tree, keeping the transitive
> hull intact (!!) then there should be no user visible change in how
> package dependencies are pulled in.

Yes and no. It is not only about the package dependency, but also about
a "portupgrade -f" or "bumping all ports which depend directly upon lib
X".

Bye,
Alexander.

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