Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:44:30 +0200 From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: port dependency conventions Message-ID: <200406232244.30157.peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
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Hello, I have been planning to start maintaing a few ports for a while now, and recently got around to looking at the issues. I decided to start with something simple - in this case, slime (Superior Lisp Mode for Emacs). slime needs either emacs or xemacs, and some form of Common Lisp (cmucl, clisp, or sbcl). What is the preferred way to handle dependencies in this case? As far as I am aware there is no mechanism in place to depend on a 'a lisp' or 'an emacs', but only on specific ports. Is this correct? As a user/administator I would prefer ports of this type to not depend on these things (same goes for Java not depending on specific JDK:s etc), but I am not sure what the convention is. Thanks, -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org
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