Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:58:24 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> To: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port dependency conventions Message-ID: <20040623215824.GA5755@isis.wad.cz> In-Reply-To: <200406232244.30157.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> References: <200406232244.30157.peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
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# peter.schuller@infidyne.com / 2004-06-23 22:44:30 +0200:
> 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.
Something like this:
EMACS_PORT?= editors/emacs
RUN_DEPENDS+= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/b2m:${PORTSDIR}/${EMACS_PORT}
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