RFC: Re-work pkgdep/DEPORIGIN? (was: Re: How to LIB_DEPEND on pgsql client?)

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:57:36 +0200
Ulrich Spoerlein <q at uni.de> wrote:

> I had this idea since the first time pkgdb gave me trouble because of
> postgresql and php4, but I don't have any patches yet, as I'm not very
> familiar with 'make package' and pkg_add. And I don't even know if
> people here agree that this is the right direction to take.

Since you are talking about portupgrade. It already has such a feature,
it's named "ALT_PKGDEP" in pkgtools.conf. You can even remove
dependencies with it.

Bye,
Alexander.

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