Port WITH_* options and updates/portupgrade

[Michael Edenfield]

* Ulrich Spoerlein <q at uni.de> [030818 05:29]:

> I think the whole dependancy thing should be thought over. E.g. I have
> to specify WITH_APACHE2 to every port, because that's what I got
> installed and apache1 still is the default. Another example is, that I

In this case you could add "WITH_APACHE2=yes" in your /etc/make.conf.  
I have a few things there to define WITHOUT_X11, WITH_THREADS, and a 
couple other commonly used variables.

> have lynx-ssl installed. Now every port depending on it looks if a lynx
> binary is available (which is) and registers it's dependancy to
> www/lynx. But www/lynx is not installed and therefore I get
> inconsitencies in the package DB.

This is a harder problem to solve automatically, but I get into the 
habit of running a pkgdb -f every couple of days to eliminate these.

--Mike