Simplifying life with X.org and ports dependencies

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:27:33 -0500 (CDT)
"Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads at cox.net> wrote:

> >Add the following alternate dependencies list, so that the section ends up 
> >looking like this:
> >
> >  ALT_PKGDEP = {
> >	'x11/XFree86-4-libraries' => 'x11/xorg-libraries',
> >	'x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontEncodings' => 'x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-encodings',
> >	'x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontScalable' => 'x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-type1',
> >	'x11/XFree86-4-clients' => 'x11/xorg-clients',
> >  }
> >
> >Voila!  No more hassles with X dependencies!
> 
> Hmmm, how odd.  I just ran portupgrade on a port with one of the above 
> XFree dependencies, and the alternate dependency didn't "take".
> 
> Could there be a bug in the current version of portupgrade?

Did you run "pkgdb -F"? I think it will fix those issues based upon
ALT_PKGDEP automatically.

Bye,
Alexander.

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