Re: Do buld-deps persist after the build ?

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:53:58 +0300
> Stathis Kamperis <ekamperi%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> Salute!
>> 
>> I've tried to build wm/awesome and, to my surprise, it started pulling
>> in doxygen (let's say it's ok) and .. texlive (doh!). I checked the
>> Makefile and those seem to be build dependencies, presumingly for
>> building the documentation ? Anyway, my question is whether pkgsrc
>> will automatically remove the build dependencies that pulled in,
>> during the build process of a package, after the build finishes. It
>> would be very unfortunate to end up with the whole texlive
>> distribution, since I don't need it :) Oh, and yes, I know that I
>> could use a binary package, although I can't right now.
>
> It sounds to me like in this case documentation should have been
> optionalised and not installed by default. Maybe upstream can be
> persuaded to ship prebuilt docs.

That's exactly what I miss from FreeBSD ports: globally accepted option
to exclude documentation.


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