Foiled Again - Part 3 Addendum

[Michael Newman]

Thanks for your clear and kind response to what now seems to have been an unfair rant on my part. Clearly, I didn’t have a good understanding of what reclaim actually did. Now I get it. 

I should note that all of my requested ports have been successfully migrated. It wasn’t easy, but I learned a lot. 

Thanks for that. 

Mike

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> On Oct 23, 2024, at 17:49, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
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> Michael Newman wrote:
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>> So, I decided to run reclaim and try again with ffmpeg. But this time the list of dependencies was huge:
> [long list of dependencies]
> 
> Yes, ffmpeg has a lot of dependencies and even more when building from source. Reclaim may have removed some of the latter because they're not needed once you have built and installed the ports that use them.
> 
>> I just don’t understand this. I am now watching MacPorts build rust for which must be the fourth or fifth time today. Why does it have to keep building rust over and over again?
> 
> Rust was updated to a new version, which accounts for one of the rebuilds. Otherwise it was probably only rebuilt if you uninstalled it (with port reclaim or otherwise). Everything is deactivated and then activated again when you restore a snapshot, which may look superficially similar to but is much faster than actually building.
> 
>> Should I just delete MacPorts and start all over again?
> That would probably just mean you have to build rust yet again? :)
> 
> - Josh
>