On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 20:51, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 May 2021 at 17:46, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > > > What is the current status of ports-mgmt/synth? > > > > It seems deprecated by what I see on this emailing list, but I see > > > occasional updates when I update ports tree. > > > It's still my favourite ports-builder.. I'll keep using it until it > > stops working. > > > Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz> > > Synth is much faster than portmaster or portupgrade, but one serious downside > is failure to install some packages that are built. > > I thought I didn't have devel/gperf, then later it occurred to me that synth > might have hidden it in the repository without installing it. > > Earlier, I thought I didn't have ninja installed but later found it hidden in > synth's repository. > > Is there any way to make synth install build dependencies? Gentoo Portage > has "--with-bdeps=y".
synth only upgrades existing packages that are on your system, and makes no assumptions about what the user wants. If you need a tool, you'll have to install it - at which point it becomes a first-class installed module (as opposed to those that can be auto-removed), and synth will upgrade them as required. This is useful for some of my systems where I don't need the build-tools, only the end-result package. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz>
