Opinion on cross-port OPTIONS CONFLICTS

[Josh Paetzel]

On Saturday 22 December 2007 03:32:56 pm Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:50:53AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > My initial solution as I posted is to register the OPTIONs used to build
> > a port in /var/db/pkg
>
> And how is that going to resolve the issue earlier suggestions
> suffered from with regarding to ports which are not installed yet
> but which will be installed as a dependency of this port?
>
> Edwin

Well, my idea was you'd be able to CONFLICT based on OPTIONs set in another 
port, so at least you could die with a helpful error message if they weren't 
set properly.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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