Ticket #14796 (pike): please commit

[Florian Ebeling]

> There is no coherency in how the dependencies are expressed in MacPorts at
> the moment: some ports lists all the dependencies recursively while other
> ones limit to list only their direct dependencies, as garnome and jhbuild do
> the right way.
>
> This is a mess.

Maybe I'm too ignorant, but isn't also the fact that dependencies are
version-agnostic
one major cause of build fails and probably a cost-effective gain to change?

I'm rather new to macports, but I was delighted to find that it can
keep multiple
versions installed, with only a single one active (usually) -- only to
learn later then that
it is otherwise not using this feature, really.

So the only workaround is `port -R upgrade', which went into endless
looping for
mne more than once (I filed a bug [1]). And cleaning the big backlog
of obsolete
versions does not really work either, as I learned, unless the version
is not depended
on anywhere or you force it everywhere [2]. Feels like
version-awareness might help
here sometimes.

Florian


[1] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/14829
[2] http://www.nabble.com/port-uninstall%3A-dep-check-broken--to16316418.html#a16333096


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Florian Ebeling
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