Install Order

[Neil]

On 30 Nov 2008, at 17:46, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Neil wrote:
>> (Stolen from Ryan Schmidt's mail on 29 Nov 2008, at 14:48.)
>>
>> Order of Operations to Install
>>      1  fetch
>>      2  checksum
>>      3  extract
>>      4  patch
>>      5  configure
>>      6  build
>>      7  destroot
>>      8  install
>>      9  deactivate
>>     10  activate
>>     11  clean
>>
>> (I'm kind of thinking out loud here...)
>>
>> Proposal:
>> What if we changed the order slightly, so we do steps 1-7 for all the
>> packages first, and then, if there are no errors, do 8-11?
>
> This is not possible, because dependencies have to be installed and
> active or they cannot be used on building dependents.

Well, never mind then.  :P

Does MacPorts keep track of which ports were installed explicitly and  
which were installed as deps?