portmaster is not always recursive

Alex Dupre ale at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 31 08:35:15 UTC 2009


Doug Barton ha scritto:
>> Does it mean that portmaster checks only first level dependencies
>> unless -t is given? (Maybe it is good behavior, I am just asking it to
>> be sure that I understand it well)
> 
> That's not exactly right, but it's about 90% right so close enough. :)
> The discrepancy relates to how individual ports report their
> dependencies, but for almost all purposes that is correct, yes.

This is the reason apache is not taken as a dependency. php extensions
depend only on php, while php itself depends on apache if mod_php is
compiled.

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Alex Dupre


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