DEPENDS -- is it time to remove it?

[Pav Lucistnik]

> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 08:28:10PM +0000, RW wrote:

Blast from the past :)

> So now I have a need for a metaport to depend on another metaport.
> Without DEPENDS, how do I accomplish that.  Using RUN_DEPENDS with 
> ${NONEXISTENT} seems not appropriate here, the Porters Handbook says
> that this should only be used to pull in source, not to install another
> metaport (unless it is already installed) and the effect of using
> something like RUN_DEPENDS=${NONEXISTENT}:${PORTSDIR}/lang/php5-extensions
> causes make install to try installing php5-extensions even when this port
> is already installed.

Try

RUN_DEPENDS=	some-metaport>=0:${PORTSDIR}/dir/metaport

Documented at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-depend.html#AEN2283

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>
It's ten o'clock; do you know where your processes are?
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