New options: options dependencies feature?

Bryan Drewery bryan at shatow.net
Fri Sep 14 13:15:17 UTC 2012


On 9/14/2012 7:27 AM, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Freebsd-ports.
> 
>   Is it possible to express options' dependencies in new options
> framework?
> 
>   I need option, which could be set if and only if some other option
> is already selected.
> 
>   Now such situations are resolved via IGNORE which is set
>  conditionally, but it is old-style, maybe now here is better method?
> 

Beyond simple SINGLE/MULTI dependencies (adding the SINGLE/MULTI as an
option and requiring it be selected to pick from the list), no, we still
need to use IGNORE and other ways of requiring dependent options.

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Regards,
Bryan Drewery
bdrewery at freenode/EFNet


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