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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:33:30 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Koichiro Iwao <meta@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: loose dependency
Message-ID:  <20190314143330.2cc6bc8d@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190314100939.lsbmlua5hps5mdia@icepick.vmeta.jp>
References:  <20190314.134014.2127053084940820202.hrs@allbsd.org> <20190314061242.ixvtakqiel4aa4r3@icepick.vmeta.jp> <20190314062217.3wx3h2hp74mo3zja@icepick.vmeta.jp> <20190314.165018.2032001534188262193.hrs@allbsd.org> <20190314100939.lsbmlua5hps5mdia@icepick.vmeta.jp>

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On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:09:40 +0900 Koichiro Iwao <meta@FreeBSD.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:50:18PM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
>> That is a workaround while increasing maintenance cost.  It is at the
>> maintainer's discretion.
> 
> Thanks for the advice. Fortunely, icons are not updated too open. The
> maintenance cost is not negligible but might be acceptable.

Like hrs already said: since this is a build dependency you can just
write:

BUILD_DEPENDS=	convert:graphics/ImageMagick6

This does not install ImageMagick6 if 7 is installed.  It will only
install 6 if convert does not exist.  It is a loose dependency.

This is not the case for RUN_DEPENDS because dependencies in a package
are currently specified using package names (including version).  They
would have to be specified using features where multiple packages can
then provide a feature.

port1:
PROVIDES=	feature1 feature2

port2:
PROVIDES=	feature2

port3:
RUN_DEPENDS=	feature2:category/port1

Then pkg could see if any installed packages provide feature2 and only
install port1 by default.



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