From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 16 4: 6:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com (curie.sunesi.com [196.25.112.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8961E37B403 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 04:06:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) Received: (qmail 3344 invoked by uid 0); 16 Jul 2001 11:06:21 -0000 Received: from choke.sunesi.net (HELO gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) (196.25.112.242) by infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2001 11:06:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 12875 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Jul 2001 11:06:20 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:06:20 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Sheldon Hearn , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package dependency limitations Message-ID: <20010716130620.A10331@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <35864.994754601@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20010715125656.A10531@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010715125656.A10531@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:56:56PM -0700 Organization: iTouch Labs X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun 2001-07-15 (12:56), Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:43:21AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > > When I originally worked on the www/mod_perl port, I found an annoying > > limitation in package dependencies. > > > > Port dependencies basically say this: > > > > If file/library x is not installed install port y. > > > > However, package dependencies say this: > > > > If port y is not installed, install port y. > > Someone just needs to port wildcard dependencies from NetBSD. No, it needs virtual packages. But wildcard dependencies are useful too. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message