[patch] remove build dependencies in bsd.ports.mk
Peter Jeremy
PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au
Mon Nov 21 10:15:22 PST 2005
On Mon, 2005-Nov-21 01:53:13 -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>works as follows. Suppose package Foo requires package Bar, and neither
>is currently installed. When you request the installation of Foo, Bar is
>also installed, but an "auto" flag is set for Bar. Any package with the
>auto flag set is only kept so long as something depends on it. If I
>remove Foo, Bar is automatically removed as well, provided I haven't in
>the meantime added anything else which depends on it.
This would work OK for runtime dependencies but handling build-time
only dependencies would need some careful thought. Whilst it might be
reasonable to automatically remove gcc-ooo after installing
Openoffice.org, I probably wouldn't want autoconf, automake, imake etc
deleted immediately after building something that needed them.
>I would guess build dependencies should be treated like regular
>dependencies. If they're removed after building, then you would have to
>reinstall them every time you upgrade the depending package.
They can't be treated totally as runtime dependencies because you don't
need (or want) them installed if you install a package (rather than
building a port).
>Anyway, AFAIK FreeBSD doesn't have anything like this, but it would be
>nifty if it did.
Agreed.
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Peter Jeremy
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