Re: Do buld-deps persist after the build ?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:53:58AM +0300, Stathis Kamperis wrote:
> I've tried to build wm/awesome and, to my surprise, it started pulling
> in doxygen (let's say it's ok) and .. texlive (doh!). I checked the
> Makefile and those seem to be build dependencies, presumingly for
> building the documentation ? Anyway, my question is whether pkgsrc
> will automatically remove the build dependencies that pulled in,
> during the build process of a package, after the build finishes.

No. How should it know that the next package you will build doesn't want
to use the same? You can use pkgtools/pkg_leaves to identify unused
automatically installed packages.

Joerg