pkg_add doesn't keep dependent pkgs

Maslan maslanbsd at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 17:58:20 PST 2007


That would be great.
I'll wait for the patch


On Nov 6, 2007 1:01 PM, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Maslan wrote:
> >>     Package dependencies may change, depending on the user settings and
> >> port maintainers configuration for the port (i.e. Makefiles). The same
> >> sort of applies to packages as well.
> >>     Or were you referring to just packages instead of ports based
> >> package metadata :)?
> >>     Or maybe a better question is: what are you trying to accomplish?
> >> -Garrett
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The problem is that i always try FreeBSD snapshots, and each time i
> > did a fresh install, i found my self in need to install xorg & gnome.
> > so when i use pkg_add -rK xorg or pkg_add -rK gnome, it just keeps the
> > package itself only without its dependencies, it would be better for
> > me to keep the packages i use rather than downloading them every time.
> >
> > The ports has no problem with that, since it leaves all the port
> > dependencies in /usr/ports/distfiles but i prefer packages than
> > recompiling every time i install a fresh system something like gnome
> > would eat my day compiling it.
>
> Hmm... that is indeed silly.
>
> Let me see if I can fire up a patch for that little issue sometime
> either next week or the week after to fix that.
>
> -Garrett
>



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