Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 12:27:28 +0000 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Port dependencies revisited Message-ID: <19990506122728.A56033@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <19990504174834.A61935@totem.fix.no>; from Anders Nordby on Tue, May 04, 1999 at 05:48:35PM %2B0200 References: <19990504174834.A61935@totem.fix.no>
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On Tue 1999-05-04 (17:48), Anders Nordby wrote: > Like say, my kvirc port requires kdelibs11, but can really do with > kdelibs (the 1.0 thing). A user can have several reasons to not always > have the latest versions of the dependencies installed: > > In other words, what I suggest is and'ing and or'ing between > LIB_DEPENDS, BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS (etc.) to specify all > possible combinations of dependencies that will do. Does this seem > feasible or even sensible to you in any way? Right now, lib-depends uses "grep -F" to do it's checks, which forces it into a "literal" mode, and so regex constructs such as qt.[12] won't work. Is there a particularly good reason to use -F? (we may need to add a sed statement to replace all .'s to \.'s, but that shouldn't be a problem.) 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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