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| − | It would be nice to have a section on configuration and installation of this port. What does the configuration option do: "BUILD_DEPENDS_ARE_LEAVES - Treat build dependencies as leaves" ? [[User:Ninereasons|Ninereasons]] 12:56, 14 April 2006 (EDT) | + | It would be nice to have a section on configuration and installation of this port. What does the configuration option do: "BUILD_DEPENDS_ARE_LEAVES - Treat build dependencies as leaves" ? |
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| + | I'd also like to see better reasons given for the favorable comparison. The blanket statement that portmanager is better than portupgrade is not well illustrated by the link to a description of a common error that shows up when you use '-a' instead of '-ra' or '-raR'. For another example, is it really "better" (rather than "simpler") that this tool automatically uninstalls ports that have been deleted from the port tree? [[User:Ninereasons|Ninereasons]] 12:56, 14 April 2006 (EDT) | ||
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[edit] Configuration
It would be nice to have a section on configuration and installation of this port. What does the configuration option do: "BUILD_DEPENDS_ARE_LEAVES - Treat build dependencies as leaves" ?
I'd also like to see better reasons given for the favorable comparison. The blanket statement that portmanager is better than portupgrade is not well illustrated by the link to a description of a common error that shows up when you use '-a' instead of '-ra' or '-raR'. For another example, is it really "better" (rather than "simpler") that this tool automatically uninstalls ports that have been deleted from the port tree? Ninereasons 12:56, 14 April 2006 (EDT)
