Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 01:35:33 +0200 From: Henrik Motakef <henrik.motakef@web.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Files shared by multiple ports Message-ID: <87ade4udkq.fsf@interim.henrik-motakef.de>
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Hi, I have several ports that are strictly speaking independent of one another. (It's a library compiled for several lisp implementations, and one for the sources.) However, they have one file in common that is used to find and load the library. It is not a good solution to simply install several versions of this file. I also cannot just have each port install the file, scince the first pkg_delete would break all others. There are other ways to handle it, none of which is particularly elegant, like creating a port just for this file the others depend on (seems stupid), or installing it with the source port and have the compiled ones depend on that (I'd rather allow binary-only installations, too). The ideal solution would be to remove this file only when the last port is deleted, for example by querying the package database. Is there a sane way to do this? tia Henrik
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