Subject: Re: Extreme lethargy when dependencies are missing (part 2)
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/07/2001 22:49:37
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
: So I looked at the CVS logs, and I see the following commit.
:
: While I appreciate Todd's intent here, there *has* to be a way to do
: this without making pkgsrc ungodly slow.
: - Add a new target, "check-depends", which is called as part of "real-fetch".
: This validates whether the dependencies of a pkg to be built are installed,
: and if not, whether those dependencies will prospectively build (will
: not set IGNORE directly or indirectly through the various disable options).
: Recurses to "depends" with a DEPENDS_TARGET of "check-depends".
When I have a chance (probably tomorrow), I'll round up a copy of the mail
*from you* that prompted me to add this. I can't even remember WTF the
issue was, anyway.
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