pkg question - Difference pkg vs port

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Michael Ross <gmx at ross.cx> wrote:

> "Anything that provides" I think is the key to where I started thinking
> wrong:
>
> The dependency is not "Shared libs required" libmysqlclient.so.18,
> but one specific port that provides libmysqlclient.so.18 - mysql55-client.
>

Ports can do "provides library" dependencies. Packages can only depend on
packages. You can try to force it but you could also confuse your package
database rather badly.

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