From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 22 21:32:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEAC016A418 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail5out.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E0313C458 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail5out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 193A92218A75; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:32:57 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <476D82880000A2F06DA78A@BarNet> Received: from mail5auth.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail5auth.barnet.com.au", Issuer "*.barnet.com.au" (verified OK)) by mail5.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F0C21B18F7; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:32:56 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (k7.mavetju.org [10.251.1.18]) by mail5auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882BE2218A3A; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:32:56 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 20DFA34D; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:32:56 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:32:56 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Josh Paetzel Message-ID: <20071222213255.GJ40969@k7.mavetju> References: <200712211524.25454.josh@tcbug.org> <200712212105.21520.josh@tcbug.org> <20071222043344.GB82459@k7.mavetju> <200712221150.59971.josh@tcbug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200712221150.59971.josh@tcbug.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinion on cross-port OPTIONS CONFLICTS X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:32:59 -0000 On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:50:53AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007 10:33:44 pm Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:05:18PM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > > > It also doesn't work if someone runs make rmconfig, or make config > > > > > again and changes things after the port is installed. > > > > > > > > > > It probably doesn't work if a package was used to install either. > > > > > > > > Create a slave port audio/arts-withoutnas and let it depends on > > > > that one. > > > > > > I don't think that's a scalable solution. It would create an explosion > > > of ports in the already taxed tree, as well as confusion as to which port > > > to install among the users. > > > > And what is your solution for this problem? > > My initial solution as I posted is to register the OPTIONs used to build a > port in /var/db/pkg And how is that going to resolve the issue earlier suggestions suffered from with regarding to ports which are not installed yet but which will be installed as a dependency of this port? Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/