Simplifying life with X.org and ports dependencies

[Michael Edenfield]

* Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> [040630 20:29]:
> In article <WnIEc.28571$Lh.4153 at okepread01>,
> Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >Edit /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.  Look for the section where you can 
> >define alternate package dependencies, starting with the line:
> >
> >  ALT_PKGDEP = {
> >
> >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?

ALT_PKGDEP didn't work for me either,  for either the xorg ports, 
nor when I tried to replace apache13 with apache13-mod_ssl.  I may be
overestimating what ALT_PKGDEP is supposed to do, but it had no effect
on what the ports/pkg tools thought were dependancies.

--Mike
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