Re: [rant] Too many dependencies

[Sarton O'Brien <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On 21/07/2009 8:48 PM, OBATA Akio wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:30:40 +0900, Jan 
> Danielsson<jan.m.danielsson%gmail.com@localhost>  wrote:
>
> >      I guess it would be difficult to implement (to everyones
> > satisfaction), but it would be great if one could set a variable which
> > stipulates what kind of system one wants: Maximum features, or minimal
> > dependencies.
>
> I wonder if we should introduce suggested option set.
> Say, each packages define PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS.lite, 
> PKG_SUGGESTE_OPTIONS.gnome and so on
> and user define PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS_SET=lite.


Yes please! :)


> >      Looking at the tree above, I don't see that there are many options
> > which would trim the dependency tree. But I don't know if there perhaps
> > are undocumented flags (the script I used to generate the tree parses
> > the output from "make show-depends" and "make show-options") which would
> > trim it down further.
>
> You can use "make show-depends-options".

Wow, that shows a lot more than 'make show-depends'. Thanks :)

Sarton