Re: pkg_add doesn't keep dependent pkgs

Maslan wrote:
>>     Package dependencies may change, depending on the user settings and
>> port maintainers configuration for the port (i.e. Makefiles). The same
>> sort of applies to packages as well.
>>     Or were you referring to just packages instead of ports based
>> package metadata :)?
>>     Or maybe a better question is: what are you trying to accomplish?
>> -Garrett
>>
>>     
>
> The problem is that i always try FreeBSD snapshots, and each time i
> did a fresh install, i found my self in need to install xorg & gnome.
> so when i use pkg_add -rK xorg or pkg_add -rK gnome, it just keeps the
> package itself only without its dependencies, it would be better for
> me to keep the packages i use rather than downloading them every time.
>
> The ports has no problem with that, since it leaves all the port
> dependencies in /usr/ports/distfiles but i prefer packages than
> recompiling every time i install a fresh system something like gnome
> would eat my day compiling it.

Hmm... that is indeed silly.

Let me see if I can fire up a patch for that little issue sometime 
either next week or the week after to fix that.

-Garrett
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