Actually, currently DEPENDS_TARGET defaults to "install", "package"
or "reinstall" depending on the make target.  I would like to keep it
defaulting to "package" during a "make package" run, even if it has
this corner-case problem.

+ Kim


feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de (Hubert Feyrer) writes:

| right now dependencies are installed via "make $DEPENDS_TARGET", which
| defaults to "install". Now it one of the required pkgs was built but
| subsequently removed, a "make install" will do nothing, esp. not install
| the pkg (again).
| 
| I propose to change this by defaulting DEPENDS_TARGET to "reinstall"
| instead of "install", for obvious reasons.
| 
| Are there any serious objections?
| 
| This would stop problems like the one described in PR pkg/10629 once and
| for all.
| 
| 
|  - Hubert
| 
| -- 
| NetBSD - because Unix isn't just #include <linux.h>, i386, ILP32, ELF, ...!
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