Breaking long dependency chains

[Joshua Root]

On 2012-3-19 14:41 , Dan Ports wrote:
>  - around 45 of these dependencies are needed to satisfy build
>    dependencies only. If we were installing from binaries, we don't
>    actually need those. But does our dependency engine know that we can
>    skip build dependencies if archives are available? I'm not sure.

Sort of. It checks if an archive is available locally (which includes
ports that are installed but inactive). This dates from before the
buildbot, and I'm planning to add a check for a remote archive.

- Josh