On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> Do we need to audit ports that use bin/lib and see if we can just change the >> behavior in some future release? > > There are occasional valid uses for wanting to allow dependencies installed > outside MacPorts For example, we allow an outside MacTeX installation to > satisfy. Several ports also go the extra mile and indicate that they need > grep or sed, but the ones included with Mac OS X are ok.
To me, it makes more sense to have path: search $PATH (or if it's an absolute path, just look for that specific file). > So I don't think changing the behavior of bin:- or lib:-style dependencies is > warranted. Port authors just need to use the correct dependency style for > what they're trying to do. My preference would be to have path: work this way, and bin search only inside $prefix. I'm not aware of an instance where we want outside lib's to fulfill dependencies (any more), though - so lib: should probably be changed to just look in $prefix. -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
