add git dependency to github portgroup?

Ken Cunningham ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com
Mon Nov 20 18:45:58 UTC 2017


On 2017-11-20, at 9:21 AM, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2017-11-21 04:02 , Ken Cunningham wrote:
>> A recent commit of Dave's made me wonder if should we add a callback dependency for something like
>> 
>> depends_build-append    bin:git:git
>> 
>> to the github portgroup?
>> 
>> I looked in there, expecting to see one, but didn't.
> No, I don't see why that would be needed. Many ports using the github
> portgroup don't use git at all, and those that do usually use it for
> fetching only.
> 
> - Josh


I guess it's true that even with the github portgroup, most of the fetching is via tarball, I get it.

OK, we can add it manually to those ports that actually do some git fetching.

Thanks, 

Ken


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