On Friday, 3. August 2007, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:17:15PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Quoting Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 2 Aug > > 2007 > > > > 16:17:10 +0200): > >>> Feature: > >>> - allow to only register explicit dependencies, disabled by default > >>> (EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS=whatever_you_want) > >> > >> Can you elaborate a bit on this new EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS feature? > >> Perhaps give a usage example or two? :) > > > > What about diffing the output of "make actual-package-depends" and "make > > actual-package-depends -DEXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS"? > > > > Simple Example: > > > > Port A depends upon B > > Port B depends upon C > > > > Without the feature: > > Port A registers dependencies to ports B and C > > > > With the feature: > > Port A registers dependendcy to ports B > > Great, then it's just the feature I needed :) Thank you for the > explanation.
Not sure this can work reliably enough to be usefule at present, at least for the specific scenario of avoiding unnecessary recompilations. I think there are just too many ports with implicit dependencies, especially in the KDE/GNOME domain. Cheers, -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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