Best way to make the port install another port

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue Nov 12 22:31:39 UTC 2013


Big Lebowski <spankthespam at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Look at it this way; the *option* depends on the second port.


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