Re: Debian/Ubuntu-style -dev ports

2016-05-18 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:45:48AM +0200, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Wednesday May 18 2016 17:50:00 Brandon Allbery wrote: > > > The problem with this is that if a MacPorts user can't get something from a > > prebuilt package, you have to force both the "user" and "developer" ports > > to b

Re: Debian/Ubuntu-style -dev ports

2016-05-18 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Wednesday May 18 2016 17:50:00 Brandon Allbery wrote: > The problem with this is that if a MacPorts user can't get something from a > prebuilt package, you have to force both the "user" and "developer" ports > to be installed because any dependents will necessarily be doing linking. Yes, but i

Re: Debian/Ubuntu-style -dev ports

2016-05-18 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, René J.V. wrote: > This got me thinking about more elegant ways to avoid the issue, in > particular Debian/Ubuntu's approach of distinguishing "user" packages and > "developer" packages. The former contain everything required to use the > package, other than for d

Debian/Ubuntu-style -dev ports

2016-05-18 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, Time for one of my wild ideas :) As some of you know, I've been working to make port:VLC independent of port:ffmpeg so that the latter can be updated to a version that VLC will not support for a while. I went for an approach where port:VLC has an ffmpeg-VLC subport that builds and install