Hi,
I'm trying to understand how/where the activate --no-exec option is set, I have
the impression it's on by default.
For instance, I have a port that implements the following approximation of a
"strongly suggested runtime dependency":
```
# we cannot use depends_run because of circular dependencies so we can
# only emit a warning if we don't detect kf5-kdevelop-clang-parser as
active
# in the post-activate. This warning will always print at least once...
post-activate {
if {[catch {set installed [lindex [registry_active
${name}-${PARSER}] 0]}]} {
ui_warn "Please remember to install (or activate)
port:${name}-${PARSER}"
}
}
```
That warning only prints during an install or upgrade (when the runtime dep is
not active).
The default for this option should be OFF IMHO; there are also ports which do
important things in the post-activate; the lldb ports remind the user that an
executable needs to be code-signed for instance. Evidently this has to be done
each time the port is (re)activated.
R.
