Best way to make the port install another port

[Big Lebowski]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Lowell Gilbert <
freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Big Lebowski <spankthespam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Just bumping it in a hope of someone actually knowing the answer...
> >
> > Look at one of the existing meta-ports to see how it is done.
> > For example: /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4
>
> My reading of the original message is that the poster knew about
> RUN_DEPENDS and OPTIONS, but wasn't comfortable combining the two
> for reasons that weren't really clear. Nonetheless, I'm pretty
> sure that is what he should do.


Yes, that was exactly the case - I know about these options, and I know how
to use them, but somehow RUN_DEPENDS doesnt feel right here. The original
port is a standalone piece of software, that can perfectly run without the
second one. The second one happens to be developed very closely with first
one, and its a commandline tool for it (but there are other ways to access
and work on the original port). Therefore RUN_DEPENDS sounds wrong.
But if that's what should be used, I'll do so.

Thanks everyone!