State of Provides/Requires

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On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> Provides/Requires has been added in pkg around 1.4 (iirc)
>
> They are not perfect and we would prefer to use what we call flexible
> dependencies instead. that said flexible dependencies are not any close to
> be
> implemented. So I think we should use current provides/requires mechanism
> in the
> mean time.
>
> To use them the only issue in on the ports tree itself
>
> Best regards,
> Bapt
>
What are the differences between flexible dependencies and the current
provides/requires implementation? What needs to be done to the ports tree
to allow for the use of provides/requires?

Thanks,

Ted