[kde-freebsd] Obsolete use of DEPENDS?

[Michael Nottebrock]

Kris Kennaway schrieb:
> It seems to me that the DEPENDS variable is obsolete - thesedays it
> can be replaced more usefully and correctly by the other *_DEPENDS
> variables.  It's still in use by a handful of ports:
> 
> ./x11/kdelibs3/Makefile:DEPENDS=        ${PORTSDIR}/misc/kdehier
> ./audio/klira/Makefile:DEPENDS= ${PORTSDIR}/misc/kdehier
> ./www/caudium12/Makefile:DEPENDS=       ${PORTSDIR}/lang/pexts/
> ./lang/pm3-forms/Makefile:DEPENDS=      ${PORTSDIR}/lang/pm3-base:configure
> ./lang/pm3-gui/Makefile:DEPENDS=        ${PORTSDIR}/lang/pm3-base:configure
> ./lang/pm3-net/Makefile:DEPENDS=        ${PORTSDIR}/lang/pm3-base:configure
> ./lang/pm3-m3tk/Makefile:DEPENDS=       ${PORTSDIR}/lang/pm3-base:configure
> ./lang/pm3-netobj/Makefile:DEPENDS=     ${PORTSDIR}/lang/pm3-base:configure
> ./print/virtualpaper/Makefile:DEPENDS=  ${PORTSDIR}/lang/pm3-base:configure
> 
> Is it actually necessary, or can it be removed?

It's the easiest and most reliable way of depending on kdehier - in
particular because it doesn't require a particular file to depend on. It
could probably be replaced by RUN_DEPENDS+BUILD_DEPENDS if it were to go
away though.

Cheers,
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