2015-04-17 12:58 GMT+03:00 Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org>: > On 2015/04/17 10:24, Vadim Zhukov wrote: >> Nice idea. I think portbump could handle multipackages case as well, >> logic is there already... > > Multipackages are more difficult, they frequently split WANTLIB up into > "things that every subpackage needs" in one variable, which is then > included in the various WANTLIB-* for other packages - there are also > some issues with flavours where these affect the WANTLIB entries - > but if we can just find a way to automate the common simple cases, > the number of exceptions will be low enough that I don't mind > doing them all by hand. > > One important thing is knowing which ports are too complicated and > automatically skipping them. Syncing wantlib by hand is easy (though > slow and error-prone when done in large numbers); spotting problems > introduced by a tool that tries to "bite off more than it can chew" > is a lot harder.
Good point, thanks. -- WBR, Vadim Zhukov
