Hi there, I recently had a look on the smörgåsbord of ports installed on my computer, and I found out three different versions of db: db44 db46 db48. Turns out a lot of ports have a fixed dependency on one of the db* ports, which in turn implies that a lot of different versions of db4 have to be installed – to no avail, since those ports provide the same service; worse, db5* and the most recent db6* are, it seems, totally ignored. Example of this is Python27 that requires db46, but works fine with db60.
In new the port cyrus5-imapd I committed this morning, I wrote some dynamic code to detect the installed db* version and go along with it, instead of forcing the installation of another version. Could this mechanism be extended, maybe though a port class? Thanks, Vincent _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
