ports with leftovers

[Peter Boosten]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>>
>> Hmmm, this leftover thingy seems to be at total random: if I rebuild a
>> package with leftovers, it builds correctly. Some do not (like apache22).
> 
> It's not random.  If the plist does not list all of the files that a
> port installed, that port will have leftovers.  The ability for a port
> to build has nothing to do with whether or not it will leave leftovers.
> 

Joe, thanks for your answer, but that is not what I meant: if a port is
flagged 'L', and I build it again, then it builds *without* leftovers.

Nothing changed in between, apart from the ports being dependency of
another port. Take for instance devel/nasm. I would not have installed
this package by myself, but it came as dependency with something else
(maybe Firefox3?). After building the 'master' port, devel/nasm had
leftovers (as did Firefox3 btw). After rebuilding devel/nasm (or
Firefox3) it build correctly *without* leftovers.

Peter

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