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[Eitan Adler]

2012/1/22 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 05:40:15PM +0000, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> eadler      2012-01-21 17:40:15 UTC
>>
>>   Log:
>>   At the moment 1385 ports use BUILD_DEPENDS= ${RUN_DEPENDS} and 450
>>   ports use BUILD_DEPENDS:= ${RUN_DEPENDS}. This patch fixes ports that are
>>   currently broken. This is a temporary measure until we organically stop
>>   using := or someone(s) spend a lot of time changing all the ports over.
>
> Thanks for using correct way of assigning rdeps to bdeps.  Can you elaborate
> on the last sentence of the log?  Why should we stop using :=?  Instead, we
> should fix portlint(1) to offer this obvious thing instead of duplicating
> two variables like it bogusly does now.

The concern is that someone would add something extra to BUILD_DEPENDS
without thinking about it and thus add extra bogus RUN_DEPENDS. I'm
uncertain if there other additional reasons that portmgr dislikes :=

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Eitan Adler
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