Re: extracting

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:38:27PM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>  > > 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.
>  > 
>  > I oppose this. The most frequent use is not unpacking to look at something,
>  > it is to build and install rather. In that case, even fetching sources
>  > let alone extracting them when some dependency doesn't even build is a
>  > waste of a time and disk space. E.g. the latter sequence will cause
>  > users to spend multiple gigabytes of space in case one wants to build
>  > some top package a la LibreOffice or Firefox. Developers, on the other hand,
>  > can learn using SKIP_DEPENDS very easily.
>
> Having packages not build is not *supposed* to be the common case :-)

Unfortunatly, it is common case, especially in current.
(Yes, I would still like to have GHC back. Any reasonably recent version suffices.)


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