Re: make extract builds depends

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

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 05:08:54PM +0000, Dennis den Brok wrote:
> Is it really regarded as useful/necessary for "make extract" to
> first build all dependencies, as it currently seems to be the case?

If you use DEPENDS_TARGET=install clean or something like that it
minimizes the disk space usage. If you just want to extract the
distfiles (and apply patches), take a look at SKIP_DEPENDS. Usual
comments about being on your apply though.

Joerg