Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith píše v ne 13. 05. 2007 v 17:32 -0500:
> 
>> I have looked into making the registration and package-building process 
>> even faster.  It seems to me that the easiest way would be to redesign 
>> the package database so that it also includes a 
>> package-name/+DEPENDENCIES file, which would be a kind of reverse of 
>> package-name/+REQUIRED_BY.  This could be used instead of "make 
>> package-depends" in creating PKG_ARGS in bsd.port.mk.  Creating 
>> +DEPENDENCIES would be very easy - you "cat" together the files of the 
>> immediate dependencies ${RUN_LIB_DEPENDS} and do a "uniq" to the final 
>> result.
> 
> Sounds like a plan.
> 
> Also, it would fix part of a long standing problem, that dependencies
> are recorded according to the ports tree, not according to a real state
> of affairs on the victim's computer.
> 

Unfortunately this won't happen quite as nicely as you think it should. 
  It proposed new scheme won't get the immediate dependencies correct.