Broken _DEPENDS logic

[Matthew Seaman]

On 03/05/2015 21:08, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> But, generally, the answer to your question is "no," becuase it is often
> the case that more than one port can serve as a dependency for another
> port. Your suggestion amounts to saying that only one port can satisfy a
> dependency for another port, which is not the case.

You're correct as far as the ports goes, but not when you're dealing
with precompiled packages.  Once you've built the package, the
dependency on the specific version of the other port is baked into it.
That's something which is likely to change in the not too distant
future, but it's going to mean some fundamental changes in the ports in
order to bring about.

At the moment, therefore, the advice for pkg users when you want to make
customizations like eg. using a different version of postfix is to set
up your onw instance of poudriere and build your own.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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