Miroslav Lachman wrote:
Adam McDougall wrote: [...]Some of that sounds true to my experience, for a while I've noticed while installing a new port with portupgrade that it will install the default dependencies before prompting with the options screen to find out which ones I want. For example if I do 'portupgrade -N postfix' on a fresh system, it will first install pcre and THEN prompt me to (de)select pcre or any of the other optional deps.[...]It was tired by this behavior more than year ago and it was the main reason to me to switch to portmaster. I got system bloated with unwanted dependencies when using portinstall/portupgrade. I never found what causes this in portupgrade.
It's actually exactly what would happen if you did:
# cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix
# make install
ie. The OPTIONS settings are only processed after the BUILD_DEPENDS
dependencies have been fulfilled. This is mostly because OPTIONS processing
always used to happen through the inclusion of bsd.port.pre.mk
As of a few months ago, there is now a bsd.port.options.mk standard Makefile
that can be included earlier in the port's Makefile and that has an effect
much earlier in the build process, but it depends on port maintainers
updating their ports to take account of this. (So far, I've only updated
one of my ports -- textproc/sphinxsearch -- but I was planning to deal with
the rest Real Soon Now.)
Cheers,
Matthew
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