Best way to make the port install another port

[Big Lebowski]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Big Lebowski <spankthespam at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to add an option to one of my ports to optionally install
> commandline tool, that's in another port. Doing the options part is easy
> and clear, but how should I add that port to build procedure to do it the
> right-way? The most obvious way would be to add RUN_DEPENDS+=, but the
> original port doesnt really depend on this tools...
>
> Another question is to where is the best place to put such dependency?
> Post install, pre install?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

Just bumping it in a hope of someone actually knowing the answer...