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Date:      Fri, 3 Apr 2015 20:06:09 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>, FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How do I specify port opt1 requires opt2
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
>
> +--On 3 avril 2015 05:46:45 +0000 Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> wrote:
> | I am working on modifying a port, and was wondering how do I specify that
> | selecting port option1 requires that option2 is also selected?
> |
> | Note that in my example it is perfectly acceptable to have option2
> | selected without option1.
>
> This functionnality is coming, it's being discussed in
> <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191144>; but for now,
> you'll have to do some testing in your Makefile and either add an IGNORE or
> force the other option.
>
> --
> Mathieu Arnold
>

What I have done in the past is to put "(Forces option OPTION)" in the
description line and then either set opt2 in the IF block for opt1 or
simply set the opt2 flag, if that is all opt2 requires, in that block.
--
Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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