Hello Kris, Saturday, May 12, 2007, 9:40:11 PM, you wrote:
KK> I think that before you abandon something you should first understand KK> it. Can you explain, why we need to register "A depends on C / C required by A" in A -> B -> C chain? I can not see any advantages, only disadvantages: (1) Long registration time in case of big dependency trees (2) There is no way to say quick, why port X is installed: it can have zillion other ports in +REQUIRY_BY, but, really, be only optional dependency of one of these ports Y (and don't needed by others, but others really need Y). (3) If port A has optional dependincy B and C depends on A, we need to fix C registartion when A is rebuilt without B... I'm not smarter than ports subsystem authros and maintainers. It means, that I overlook some HUGE advantage to have flatten dependency tree in every port/package registartion. What do I overlook? -- Best regards, Lev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
