On Jan 12, 2018, at 6:30 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jerem...@macports.org> wrote: > In https://trac.macports.org/ticket/54744, we've been pondering adding a > PortGroup to allow concurrent installation of multiple providers of the > OpenSSL API (eg: openssl, libressl, libressl-devel) and allow ports to > specify which they are compatible with. > > It occurred to me that it would be nice if we could update the PortGroup when > one of the dependencies changed their dylib id rather than revbumping all > ports. Is this something anyone else has considered?
I've suggested this in the past (for p5 ports, specifically) that we could (ab)use revision to avoid having to rev-bump many ports. (I suggested we use a date-string so that individual ports that used the port-group could still set a higher revision if they needed to - but we'd still probably have to work out something to handle the case where a port wanted to set a revision and then later we wanted to update the revision in the portgroup). IIRC Ryan /hated/ that idea. Alternatively, we could add something to base to let us specify this kind of dependency (which would be useful). -- Daniel J. Luke
