Avoiding rebuilds?

[sohailsomani]

I'm using the script mode to install dependencies but when I add dependencies to requirements.txt, cmake-get redownloads and rebuilds everything. This is very inefficient. Is there a way to avoid the constant rebuilds?

[pfultz2]

The best way is to use cget which will avoid the rebuilds and can cache downloads.

In cmake-get, we could store in a file which dependencies were installed and not rebuild them, however, there is no mechanism to upgrade just one dependency. The user would need to manually remove the entry from the file for that to work.