Daniel Engberg wrote on 2023/10/28 17:48:
> If upstream uses GNU Autotools, use upstream release archives as they
> usually contains a configure script ready to run which means that you
> can avoid USES= autoreconf which is slow and adds unncessary
> dependencies.
This has the following problem
Apply patches to {configure.ac,Makefile.am} and run autoreconf
versus
Apply patches to {configure,Makefile.in} and run ./configure immediately
Incidentally, some ports (e.g. security/heimdal*) do not know which it is.
> If dependencies are unbundled you can save I/O and processing time by
> not extracting.
>
> Example:
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/net-mgmt/netdata/Makefile#n32
With -X (or --exclude-from) of tar, a list of unwanted files can be made into a
file.
If the file is subject to SUB_FILES, the options also allow selection of
unnecessary files.
... I have thought about this for a moment.
It was impossible because the timing when SUB_FILES is extracted is much later
than when it is possible to do so.
Regards.
