Re: extracting

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 01:34:36PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> > * On 2015-01-19 at 17:18 GMT, Robert Swindells wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any way to configure pkgsrc to let you run 'make extract' by
> >> itself, that is without the packages required to build being present ?
> >
> > bmake SKIP_DEPENDS=yes extract
> 
> It would be nice if the order were changed so that it was
> 
> fetch extract patch depends [rest]
> 
> rather than depends being so early.
> I often want to unpack (and usually patch) to look at something, and
> this tends to lead to dependencies.

agreed...

P