I have yet another suggestion regarding packaging subsystem -- could it be possible to extend pkg_* functionality (and, in fact, ports functionality) to recognize modest set of wildcards in dependencies names?

It seems pretty unreasonable to have various subrevisions of, say, libiconv, pulled as packages dependencies ending with libiconv-1.7_5, libiconv-1.8, libiconv-1.8_1 and installed. And still another package would complain about having no -1.8_2.

I'd like to see in dependencies not only like "was built with -1.9_2abc, so wants it", but also something like -1.5+ (obviously 1.5.0 and newer), -* (any version will do). Perhaps something else. At least to have possibility of specifying that, if this can't go into official ports. Does it seem reasonable?


Tim Kientzle wrote:

The attached patch modifies the pkg_install
tools to inspect the file contents--rather than the
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