Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:40:47 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] TexLive port Message-ID: <5031F80F.6060303@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5031F408.4040800@bsdforen.de> References: <50170F2E.2060804@bsdforen.de> <50276571.5070709@bsdforen.de> <5031EC66.8020807@bsdforen.de> <20120820081651.GI57907@mail.hs.ntnu.edu.tw> <5031F408.4040800@bsdforen.de>
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On 08/20/2012 01:23, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> I have run into problems with portmaster. The problem is that it doesn't
> check whether a dependency is satisfied. It just goes ahead and installs
> them.
>
> I think a dependency like:
> latex:${PORTSDIR}/print/teTeX-base
>
> shouldn't cause portmaster to install teTeX-base. Not if a latex
> binary is already available.
Portmaster doesn't handle dependencies that way, it relies on the port
authors to register CONFLICTS. If you have installed a port that
installs a latex binary it and teTeX-base should have CONFLICTS
registered against each other.
Doug
--
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do
something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what
I can do.
-- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909)
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