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Subject: Re: Best way to make the port install another port
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 (Torfinn Ingolfsen's message of "Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:51:48 +0100")
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Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Big Lebowski <spankthespam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just bumping it in a hope of someone actually knowing the answer...
>
> Look at one of the existing meta-ports to see how it is done.
> For example: /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4

My reading of the original message is that the poster knew about
RUN_DEPENDS and OPTIONS, but wasn't comfortable combining the two 
for reasons that weren't really clear. Nonetheless, I'm pretty 
sure that is what he should do.