From f358e5d2e089feecd55e8b777adb66d4417de903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pav Lucistnik Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:50:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Remove mentions of DEPENDS variable --- .../books/porters-handbook/book.sgml | 22 ------------------- 1 file changed, 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml index a514bf7e30..30a7e1363f 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml @@ -3318,19 +3318,6 @@ ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES= yes same as DEPENDS_TARGET. - - <makevar>DEPENDS</makevar> - - If there is a dependency that does not fall into either of the - above categories, or your port requires having the source of - the other port extracted in addition to having it installed, - then use this variable. This is a list of - dir:target, - as there is nothing to check, unlike the previous four. The - target part can be omitted if it is the - same as DEPENDS_TARGET. - - <makevar>USE_<replaceable>*</replaceable></makevar> @@ -3477,15 +3464,6 @@ ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES= yes BUILD_DEPENDS= ${NONEXISTENT}:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/jpeg:extract will always descend to the jpeg port and extract it. - - Do not use DEPENDS unless there is no other - way the behavior you want can be accomplished. It will cause the - other port to always be built (and installed, by default), and the - dependency will go into the packages as well. If this is really - what you need, you should probably write it as - BUILD_DEPENDS and - RUN_DEPENDS instead—at least the - intention will be clear.