Best way to make the port install another port

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue Nov 12 21:18:13 UTC 2013


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.


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