On Sep 29, 2025, at 16:11, Gregorio Litenstein wrote: > > Would it be possible to add some manner of configuration option (or possibly > extra command-line switches) so that the -s and -b command-line switches > aren't taken into account for packages (and their dependencies) that only got > pulled-in as the result of a `depends_build`?
I have a similar desire which is for there to be a way to tell a port to build from source while allowing its dependencies (of any type, not just build dependencies) to be installed or upgraded from binaries. > My use case is the following: I'm building a large program that depends on > things like ffmpeg, librsvg (and thus rust), among others, and I want it to > be truly redistributable, so I want to build at least all direct dependencies > myself. How does building it yourself make it redistributable?
