Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:44:52 +0300 From: Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The right way to depend on a package's extra feature Message-ID: <20050805074452.GC60681@sinanica.bg.datamax> In-Reply-To: <20050805072412.GB70957@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20050805070513.GA60681@sinanica.bg.datamax> <42F310D2.7020200@magnesium.net> <20050805072412.GB70957@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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--YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:24:12AM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > =2E.. > I.e. I have both devel/svk and devel/subversion installed. Now, I need > devel/subversion because other software depends on it, so I build it > with perl bindings by myself. However, devel/svk insists on depending > on devel/subversion-perl because it wants the perl bindings -> not > good... Hmmz, devel/svk should find ${SITE_PERL}/${PERL_ARCH}/SVN/Core.pm (installed by devel/subversion with perl bindings) and not insist on depending on devel/subversion-perl... >=20 > I don't see a way out except extending the DEPENDS mechanism with > optional flags, or at least checking of /var/db/ports/*/options > (for OPTIONS enabled ports). >=20 extending the DEPENDS mechanism is what I thought also... looking for /var/db/ports/*/options is not universal, because a lot of ports have WITH_SOMETHING without defining OPTIONS. --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFC8xjzFw6SP/bBpCARAlTIAJ9fUcwx/mf9DsrzSMbti8U89BusCwCfXqFs DTzf3hMbrcQp1omEhhrALzM= =tKii -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ--
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