[Bug 227347] ports-mgmt/portmaster: unnecessarily recompiles flavored dependencies

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            Bug ID: 227347
           Summary: ports-mgmt/portmaster: unnecessarily recompiles
                    flavored dependencies
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: se at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: d8zNeCFG at aon.at
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(se at FreeBSD.org)
          Assignee: se at FreeBSD.org

It seems that whenever a dependency does not specify an explicit flavor for a
port which is flavored, portmaster reinstalls it unconditionally. For example,
running "portmaster devel/llvm50" will recompile py27-enum34 and py27-sphinx,
even though both are already installed in their latest versions.

I think portmaster should be modified such that when checking whether a port
needs to be updated it first checks whether the port is flavored (probably
using "make -V FLAVORS"), and if it detects that it indeed is changes the
update check to be for the default flavor instead ("make -V FLAVOR" where the
environment does not include the flavor).

There are quite many ports whose dependencies have not been marked (completely)
with a flavor, and it probably should not be necessary given that a default
flavor exists anyway (there were however a few commits where most of the
flavors for python dependencies were added).

-- Martin

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