Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:30:04 +0200 From: "Tjong-A-Hung" <G.V.Tjong-A-Hung@student.TUDelft.NL> To: <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: optional dependencies Message-ID: <7179262C99DD344EBE01B432F636147740DC7B@SRV602.tudelft.net>
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Dear all, for quite some time I have been annoyed by the fact that alot of ports = seem to install so called dependencies which *I* don't need. An example is a port needs a pdfviewer, I have acroread installed. = Someone may think xpdf or kpdf is better. All of that is besides the = point. If the port needs a pdfviewer and I have *my* favourite pdf viwer = installed, don't install the pdfviewer *you* think is best. Isn't it possible to add optional dependencies like: look if he has kpdf/xpdf/acroread, if so do not install the pdfviewer. = configure the app in such a way that it does use this pdfviewer I = already have installed. And if not install *your* choice of pdfviewer. texmaker is one of these ports where this doesn't happen as I would like = it to. I have read up on the porters handbook to see if it was possible, but = the only thing I could find was the following: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefil= e-depend.html This however doesn't provide enough information to me to create a = dependency the way I would like it too. Is there someone in the community who can give me a clue of what I *can* = do? Regards, Gabor
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