cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Friday, 3. August 2007, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:17:15PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Quoting Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik at brixandersen.dk> (from Thu, 2 Aug
> > 2007
> >
> > 16:17:10 +0200):
> >>> Feature:
> >>>  - allow to only register explicit dependencies, disabled by default
> >>>    (EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS=whatever_you_want)
> >>
> >> Can you elaborate a bit on this new EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS feature?
> >> Perhaps give a usage example or two? :)
> >
> > What about diffing the output of "make actual-package-depends" and "make
> > actual-package-depends -DEXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS"?
> >
> > Simple Example:
> >
> > Port A depends upon B
> > Port B depends upon C
> >
> > Without the feature:
> >  Port A registers dependencies to ports B and C
> >
> > With the feature:
> >  Port A registers dependendcy to ports B
>
> Great, then it's just the feature I needed :) Thank you for the
> explanation.

Not sure this can work reliably enough to be usefule at present, at least for 
the specific scenario of avoiding unnecessary recompilations. I think there 
are just too many ports with implicit dependencies, especially in the 
KDE/GNOME domain.


Cheers,
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