"make index" shows missing port directory

[Jason Helfman]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 08:09:08PM +0200, Palle Girgensohn thus spake:
>Chris Rees skrev:
>> On 8 June 2012 08:15, Alfred Bartsch <bartsch at dssgmbh.de> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> Adding this missing entry to the portstree should solve this issue.
>>> To avoid such problems in the future, it would IMHO be preferable to
>>> have only one port (/usr/ports/databases/p5-DBD-mysql), which is able
>>> to handle all mysql versions, similar to p5-DBD-Pg.
>>
>> Actually, I'm looking at moving p5-DBD-Pg to versioned ports, since it
>> is less unpredictable to install a versioned port, the autodetection
>> logic is messy and packages are not built for any but the default
>> version.
>>
>> Chris
>
>That is partly true, but it is also strange to have a versioned port
>where there is no difference other than the dependency?
>

With this, we could technically use the new options framework with SINGLE
methodology, and append a suffix of the version, and claim stake on the
version required for the version selected.

Is there any advantage to having more then one port for this, or can
consolidating into one port not be done based on other factors?

-jgh

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