On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:28:19 -0800 Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > As the ports man page states: > > > > # make config-recursive > > > > does what you want. It's surprising how often people claim this > > feature is missing, even though it has been there ever since I > > started using FreeBSD. > > And it's surprising how often people don't listen when I explain that > config-recursive is not a complete solution. :) It builds the list > first, so that if you enable an option that creates a dependency on > another port it will be missed. Whilst this is a little irritating, and it would be nice to have it fixed, in practice it's not all that much of a problem. When installing a new port, you can simple run config-recursive twice (or until there's a clean pass). When configuring multiple origins from a script it's better to handle the recursion externally anyway, because even if config-recursive were fixed it would still be deeply inefficient. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
