Re: Can we stop revbumping the world please?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 03:46:54PM +0100, Dr. Thomas Orgis wrote:
> I am not sure how tricky it would be to (re-)introduce a notion of
> direct and indirect dependencies in pkgsrc, and do re-builds only on
> direct relations. For sure there are lots of packages now that do not
> mention dependencies that they get by way of including a buildlink file
> of another dependency. Lots of packaging cleanup ahead.

The idea is that buildlink3.mk files only include other buildlink3.mk
files if necessary, i.e. if an installed header uses an installed
header of the dependency, or if a library uses the dependency's
library.

Of course there might be cases where this wasn't done correctly, but I
think in general the situation should be correct and the buildlink3.mk
includes actually needed.
 Thomas