Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 17:24:06 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: post-depends? Message-ID: <19990509172406.A61533@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <199905071324.GAA04585@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Fri, May 07, 1999 at 06:24:49AM -0700 References: <19990506171512.A14870@rucus.ru.ac.za> <199905071324.GAA04585@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Satoshi wrote: > * Is there any way to provide a mechanism such that a port may conditionally > * move on to making another port after it is finished? Something like a > * POST_DEPENDS item that'll generally be built up due to WITH_CONTRIB, &c. > * variables. > * > * This would allow ports, like for example qmail, to offer a menu (using > * my pdlg mechanism, or another) of options for addons that might be > * useful - like qmailcontrib, qmailanalog, ezmlm, &c. > > Um, how's that supposed to work for packages? ;) I don't think it's supposed to - since you're installing it from a port, and not a package, you have more of an interactive interest in the prospect. Just like you won't find a package for tin that sets NNTP_ONLY, this could be a ports-only feature. Actually, I'll take a look at the "auto load" code in pkg_add, and see whether it'd be at all hard to get that to fetch stuff requested. That only leaves the displaying of options and returning of useful information to pkg_add. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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