Opinion on cross-port OPTIONS CONFLICTS

[Josh Paetzel]

On Friday 21 December 2007 10:33:44 pm Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:05:18PM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > > > It also doesn't work if someone runs make rmconfig, or make config
> > > > again and changes things after the port is installed.
> > > >
> > > > It probably doesn't work if a package was used to install either.
> > >
> > > Create a slave port audio/arts-withoutnas and let it depends on
> > > that one.
> >
> > I don't think that's a scalable solution.  It would create an explosion
> > of ports in the already taxed tree, as well as confusion as to which port
> > to install among the users.
>
> And what is your solution for this problem?
>
> Edwin

My initial solution as I posted is to register the OPTIONs used to build a 
port in /var/db/pkg

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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