[Bsdrp-devel] package-recursive

[Emre G. <em...@gu...>]

Is there any reason why 'package-recursive' target is not used to
automatically generate port dependencies in the 'add_port' command?
Since this approach may introduce a number of ports that are not
necessary for run-time system, those could then be removed by 'pkg
autoremove' in the 'cleanup_ports' function... I tested it a few times
with something like 'databases/rrdtool' that has a notoriously long
dependency list. It seems to work, although I have no idea if
'package-recursive' could be relied upon for all the ports that are out
there. For instance, 'security/bro' has an optional dependency
'ftp/curl', which is normally pulled in during buildworld. But when disk
image is generated, 'ftp/curl' is not added automatically (needs a
redundant add_port "ftp/curl"). There is a comment in the nano file
referring to a broken system, but I don't know if it still applies to
the FreeBSD 10 release cycle.

Regards,
Emre.