On 30.11.2007, at 01:18, Boyd Waters wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Eric Hall wrote:
If there's a way to specify 'gtk2 +x11' I'm all for adding
that to the wireshark (and other) ports, I don't think there is yet
(and I'm happy to be corrected).
The issue of specifying variants on deps is very very important to
us here at NRAO, and I haven't figured out a way to do it yet.
So if there's a way to do so, let me know how!
Can't we just specify version and variant info in the depends list?
example
depends gtk2+x11
Alas this doesn't work as yet, but it would be the way to do it. It
would also be nice to specify a version:
depends [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Depending on variants is a bad idea imho:
If A depends on B1 and C depends on B2 you get auto-trouble when
trying to install both A and C.
And there is no solution to get both installed and running - at all!
When depending on variants, we get unsolvable dependency chains.
If variant 1 and 2 of B are so important and so different, the best
solution is to create two ports (that can be installed simultaneously).
Either this or the default version of B should make both A and C happy.
If someone wants to work on this, I'd rather suggest implementing
port-inheritance, so that creating a "variant-port" is much easier
and less work to maintain.
Regards,
-Markus
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Dipl. Inf. (FH) Markus W. Weissmann
http://www.mweissmann.de/
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