"Jeremy Messenger" <me...@cox.net> writes: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:40:08 -0600, Boris Samorodov <b...@ipt.ru> wrote: >> "Jeremy Messenger" <me...@cox.net> writes: >> >>>> 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.
Jeremy, you are right. No cakes for me today. ;-) WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
