On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> That would be the opposite of the way that these works today, and I can't
> imagine wanting to go through all thousands of ports and switch this.
If it makes things better, it's worth it.
Most ports only use port: style dependencies any way...
I don't think it would be an extreme effort to change things (I'll even
volunteer to do it in a couple of months when I can spend some extra time on
this).
> I would rather educate port authors as to how to use them the way they work
> today, and improve the documentation if needed.
There's basically no documentation (the guide doesn't mention it, and the
Portfile man page doesn't either).
> path:-style doesn't search $PATH; it looks for a file at a particular path
> specified in the dependency, i.e. path:/usr/bin/grep:grep or
> path:${prefix}/bin/grep:grep. If the path is not absolute, "${prefix}/" is
> prepended to it.
>
> bin:-style searches bin_path.
>
> lib:-style does something similar for libraries.
And this behavior is totally obvious? (I know you changed a bunch of your ports
a while back because you didn't realize it works this way - and you're probably
more informed than most port maintainers...)
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