From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 19 3:48:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575AB37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 03:48:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FB843F75 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 03:48:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org (krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26FC2A381D for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:48:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 298717447F; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:48:06 +0100 (CET) To: Ade Lovett Cc: Kris Kennaway , Subject: Re: passing arguments to *_DEPENDS In-Reply-To: (Ade Lovett's message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:08:29 -0600") References: From: Matthias Andree Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:48:06 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Ade Lovett writes: > I believe we need to rethink the concept of ports either being thin (minimal > number of dependencies) or thick (maximal dependencies), and work on a > generic optional-dependency system that individual ports may use. Should such a rethink happen, I have two ideas: 1. some ports can go with "one of a choice" of ports, such as bogofilter, which COULD work with db3, db4 or db41. It currently uses db4 because this gives the most robust build process (*), but fall-back dependencies would be nice. 2. Debian's packaging system knows the above "or" (which could be worked around with PROVIDES=, Postfix and Exim could set PROVIDES=smtp_daemon for instance) and also knows suggestions and recommendations which are not "necessary" dependencies, but recommendations "useful to have"; for example, mutt could "suggest" lbdb, or pine could "suggest" (pico or nano) and pilot. *) The db3 build goofs up the dependencies if db3 AND db4 are installed when bogofilter is compiled. bogofilter configure.in issue, not ports' fault. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message