Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 06:33:29 -0700 From: Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why no flavor_USES helper? Message-ID: <1f0f9a6c-09a6-86f9-625f-e9e482dc0e83@bluerosetech.com> In-Reply-To: <20210906081612.rxo2os7dvx5mkvz6@aniel.nours.eu> References: <8982e300-8b04-f31a-9c49-43d0dd428b38@bluerosetech.com> <20210906081612.rxo2os7dvx5mkvz6@aniel.nours.eu>
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On 2021-09-06 1:16, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 10:39:29AM -0700, Mel Pilgrim wrote: >> The flavors helpers like flavor_RUN_DEPENDS are super useful, but I need to >> modify USES based on flavor, and find that there is no helper for it. > > Besause USES are loader 100 lines earlier, meaning only USES are already > processed when we expand the helper. > > Without getting to far in the technical details, USES and FLAVORS are basically > expanded at the moment, in pre and post section, meaning one had to decide > either we should allow USES to define flavors, or we should allow USES helpers. Is this why there odd race conditions between USES and FLAVORS where, for example, if I have a FLAVOR that does USES+=pgsql and WANT_PGSQL, the corresponding postgresqlN-* ports aren't added to *_DEPENDS?
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