Re: Do buld-deps persist after the build ?

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:53:58 +0300
Stathis Kamperis <ekamperi%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Salute!
> 
> 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. It
> would be very unfortunate to end up with the whole texlive
> distribution, since I don't need it :) Oh, and yes, I know that I
> could use a binary package, although I can't right now.

It sounds to me like in this case documentation should have been
optionalised and not installed by default. Maybe upstream can be
persuaded to ship prebuilt docs.