dependency inheritance

[Frank Laszlo]

Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>   
>> What I'd like to know is weather there is something wrong with my port.
>> This problem makes it necessary to run 'pkgdb -F' to use portupgrade.
>> Which is annoying in my opinion.
>>     
>
> A known problem. Prior to ghostscript-afpl being taken care of in
> bsd.port.mk, I always had to fix dependencies from ghostscript-gpl ->
> ghostscript->afpl.
>
> Same thing happens if you have lynx-ssl installed, and some other port
> depends on lynx:www/lynx, it will find a lynx binary (of course) and
> then blindly depend on www/lynx (wrong).
>
> A possible fix is to not record what's specified in the Makefile, as
> this is only a suggestion on which port to install if the dep is not
> satisfied. But to use the output of pkg_info -qo `pkg_info -qW lynx`
> which will return www/lynx-ssl on my system.
>   
Something like this wouldn't be a bad idea, in my opinion.
> Problem: If lynx has been installed by hand, the pkg_info calls will
> fail and you'd have to fallback to the suggestion provided in the
> Makefile.
>   

I'd say this isnt a problem, as the ports system doesnt really work
nicely with manually installed applications anyways, perhaps it could
fall over to the current way of finding dependencies if the pkg_info fails?

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