Re: Is it possible to blacklist a package and its reverse dependencies?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 13:03, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > I put this in my mk.conf:
> >
> > PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS= -dbus
> >
> > but pkgsrc will still build and install dbus if it's listed as dependency.
>
> That adds the '-dbus' option to the default set, so if a package has a
> dbus option it will be disabled.
>
> > I'd like to understand the logic behind this pkgsrc behaviour.
>
> It does what's intended, which isn't what you want :-(
>
> abs@ pointed out how to mark packages broken.  We could add a variable
> like that, but requests like yours are very infrequent.
>
> The other thing is that there are packages that use dbus that don't have
> it as an option now but perhaps could, if it is sensible to build them
> without dbus.  Deepending on the level of dislike for a package, the
> process of finding all such cases and adding options is in varying
> states.

Thanks for the feedback.

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Ottavio Caruso