portmaster and build depends

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 22 05:20:47 UTC 2010


On 08/21/2010 17:49, Rob Farmer wrote:
> Ok, portmaster -at seems to work as expected.

Excellent!

> However, the problem with this solution is that if -t isn't
> recommended for routine use, how am I supposed to know when to use it?

You're not. :)  In practice most port authors are really good about 
creating direct dependencies on the things that really matter for their 
port.


Doug

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