On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 06:17 -0500, Randall Wood wrote: > Is it possible? > > What I would like to do is be able to test either that a dependency > was installed with a certain variant or that a file exists and then > set a variant on the port being installed based on that information. > > Background: > I am reworking the gtk2 port so that it can be installed without X11. > What I want to be able to do is have "sudo port install gtk2" work > correctly, installing gtk2 with the correct variants for the machine > its being installed on without user intervention or complaint.
I didn't try to hack a Portfile to do this, so no idea; if these are common tests, we could include them in port(1) like with the platform and architecture variants. Depending on a variant of a port to be installed will create a big mess and is imho a bad idea: If A requires C1, B requires C0 and C1 conflicts with C0 you're stuck. I'd like to avoid having this kind of conflicts in the first place by _not_ relying on variants. If it is crucial for a port to have something installed in a "non-standard" way, either create a new port that takes the non-standard options or try to make your requirements the defaults for the dependencies. A good example I just recently saw are the smlnj/smlnj-dev ports which can both be installed simultaneously (different versions); ncurses and ncursesw als come to my mind here. Regards, -Markus -- Dipl. Inf. (FH) Markus Weissmann http://www.mweissmann.de/ http://www.macports.org/ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
