Re: "make extract" and dependencies

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Jan 5,  4:00am, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Clausen?= wrote:
} 
} I just noticed, that a simple "make extract" will check all
} dependencies, and install them, if they are missing. Has this changed

     No.

} recently? Unless there is a good technical reason, I'd prefer to just

     Presumably it made the coding easier, i.e. deal with dependencies
before starting to work on the package, then deal with the package
completely.

} look into the source of a package without too much of a hassle. IMHO,
} at least until "make patch", the current package directory should not
} be left.

     The magic variable you want is SKIP_DEPENDS, i.e.
make SKIP_DEPENDS=1 extract

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