On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 16:05:21 +0100, Erwin Lansing wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:01:46PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > The ports make infrastructure has a whole series of variables for showing > > how one port depends on another: LIB_DEPENDS, BUILD_DEPENDS, RUN_DEPENDS > > etc. Amongst these is what looks to me like the vestigial remnant of > > an earlier phase of the ports: the plain, unmodified 'DEPENDS' variable. > > > There is also a PR against this: ports/99724. Unfortunately, it hasn't > made it into an -exp run on pointyhat yet as other patches had higher > priority. It is on the TODO-list however, you are completely right that > it should be removed.
One thing that can be done in the meantime is to remove DEPENDS from those 3 ports that still use it. So things are nice and tidy when time comes to edit bsd.port.mk. -- Vasil Dimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] % It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.
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