ports/115870: [DEPS] graphics/cairo reduce X dependencies

[Pav Lucistnik]

Alexander Leidinger píše v út 04. 09. 2007 v 11:46 +0200:
> Quoting Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org> (Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:18:10 +0200):
> 
> > Alexander Leidinger píše v út 04. 09. 2007 v 11:11 +0200:
> > 
> > > > What do you mean by 'explicit' depends? I don't want to list every
> > > > single each lib in every single each port, when I can rely on indirect
> > > > dependencies via ports like gtk20.
> > > 
> > > Explicit dependencies makes it more easy to just rebuild those ports
> > > which use a specific lib which just had an ABI change. Our users want
> > > this. 
> > 
> > Ah, this nonsense again.
> 
> Please explain why.

You are adding a massive overhead on a day-to-day operation, like
calculating a dependency list, to solve a problem that only appears few
times a year. Did you any benchmarks on what happens if you replace,
say, gtk20 with it's explicit dependencies, is all ports that define
USE_GNOME=gtk20?

Also, the new world order is lot less intuitive and transparent to the
porter. Hard to spot mistakes and ommissions will be made.

Thirdly, what happens if, say, gtk20 grows a dependency on a new X
library? You will go and add it to all the thousands of individual
ports?

> Would you please provide technical details why you are opposed to lift
> the Ports Collection to a higher feature/quality level?

I don't think this moves the ports to a higher quality level, quite the
opposite.

You are basically committing to do a lot of tedious manual work, which
is currently done by the framework, just because you think you can do
that job marginally better.

I don't buy that.

Your claws example can be solved by only bumping ports that
build_depends on python on next python upgrade.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

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