Re: How do WITH_DEPEND_CLEANUP= and WITH_META_MODE= interact? To get the old WITH_META_MODE= behavior, is WITHOUT_DEPEND_CLEANUP= needed?

Reply: Simon J. Gerraty: "Re: How do WITH_DEPEND_CLEANUP= and WITH_META_MODE= interact? To get the old WITH_META_MODE= behavior, is WITHOUT_DEPEND_CLEANUP= needed?"
In reply to: Simon J. Gerraty: "Re: How do WITH_DEPEND_CLEANUP= and WITH_META_MODE= interact? To get the old WITH_META_MODE= behavior, is WITHOUT_DEPEND_CLEANUP= needed?"
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From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:10:21 UTC

"Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> writes:
> Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> writes:
> > How do WITH_DEPEND_CLEANUP= and WITH_META_MODE= interact?
> Probably not well.

They interact just fine.

> > Do I need to set
> > WITHOUT_DEPEND_CLEANUP= to have META_MODE= work as it used to?
> My guess would be yes.

That's not a guess, that's a knee-jerk reaction to something new that
you don't understand and didn't bother to research.

> It appears that MK_DEPEND_CLEANUP=yes is an attempt to compensate for
> MK_META_MODE=no

Not in the least.

DES
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