Question about Ports and Packages

[Lowell Gilbert]

Tom Moyer <tommoyer at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm using FreeBSD 5-STABLE installed from 5.4-RC1 and then cvsup'd to
> 5-STABLE on Friday.
> 
> Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I noticed that when I did
> pkgdb -F or portsdb -Uu, it seemed to complain about build
> dependancies missing for packages that I installed from packages.  I
> assumed that it would catch this and not prompt me to fix stale
> dependacies like that.

I've never had it warn me about build dependencies.  I don't think the
ports database even tracks them.  Are you sure those aren't runtime
dependencies?

> Along those same lines:  I deleted a build dependancy before I decided
> to skip them, is there any way to fix that automatically?

Sorry; I don't understand the question.