portmaster --check-depends with pkgng exits immediately

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Mon Apr 16 15:18:22 UTC 2012


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 05:11:17PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 03:45:11PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > portmaster --check-depends used to take many seconds,
> > sometimes a minute to run. Now, with pkgng, it
> > exits immediately. Is this due to the efficiency
> > of the new tools? Or maybe this portmaster
> > option now does nothing and pkg tools should
> > be used directly instead?
> > 
> 
> portmaster --check-depends is useless with pkgng that is why it return
> immediatly.

So does "pkg check -ad" do exactly what "portmaster --check-depends"
did before?

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