From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 00:00:45 2009 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 3ADDE1065687 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao105.cox.net (eastrmmtao105.cox.net [68.230.240.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42828FC2A for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao105.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20090130000045.FNIU4139.eastrmmtao105.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:00:45 -0500 Received: from localhost ([68.103.37.153]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id 9c0j1b00M3JFCbG02c0jUR; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:00:44 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=9oQhmrv7VOwA:10 a=NbiXZZgMwkQA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=kOsCsw-nhjOZQXFImJIA:9 a=5VuN6n2vwemZdg-mcINen84kyboA:4 a=twX6zS2zVsUA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:00:40 -0600 To: "Boris Samorodov" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <13578868@bs1.sp34.ru> <36775287@bs1.sp34.ru> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <36775287@bs1.sp34.ru> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.63 (Linux) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Run-time auto-detection is harmful for packages 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: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:45 -0000 On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:40:08 -0600, Boris Samorodov wrote: > "Jeremy Messenger" writes: > >> You already can do that. WITHOUT_GNOME=yes or WITHOUT_GNOME=esound. > > Thanks for the tip! > >>> 2. Create slave ports to build (non-default so far) packages for those >>> who want to use packages and were unfortunate to install packages >>> used for auto-detection by other packages. >>> >>> As an example here may be a slave port audio/libmikmod-esound with >>> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-esd at makefile. >> >> No thanks, create a slave port that will have CONFLICTS with master is >> a worst solution. > > Can you give some arguments? I don't see a strong ones... User wants to install foo port that depend on libmikmod. User wants to install bar port that depend on libmikmod-esound, bang it's conflicted and can't be install. We have a few of like that in ports (ie: boost(-python) and it's pain. Cheers, Mezz > WBR -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org