RFC: Re-work pkgdep/DEPORIGIN?
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Mon Jun 7 17:37:00 GMT 2004
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
[ ... ]
>> The real fix IMHO is to use a strategy similar to what Debian Linux
>> uses: instead of depending on specific ports, depend on capabilities.
>> So for example, www/horde2 would depend on webphp, and lang/php4 and
>> www/mod_php4 would each provide webphp. (I don't know the postgres port
>> family as well, so I can't readily give an example using it.)
>
> I don't know the specific debian facilities, but isn't this overkill?
Perhaps so, as it it seems other people agree with your opinion.
To my mind, supporting "capability-based dependencies" would be a win, as
would supporting what I think of as "loose dependencies" (ie, I depend on
libiconv, but I don't care whether the system has shlib .2, .3, or whatever,
just _a_ version), rather than having ports always hardcode themselves to
looking for a specific version ("strict dependencies").
The advantage of loose dependency support would be to reduce the need for
propogating a ripple of changes to LIB_DEPENDS for possibly hundreds of
dependent ports when some basic library like readline or libiconv is updated.
--
-Chuck
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