On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:48:58AM +0100, Olivier Le Floch said: > On 28 janv. 09, at 05:12, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Jan 27, 2009, at 16:11, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Append depends_lib because the one in the kde4 portgroup will get >>> lost otherwise. >>> We should have depends_lib.pre_args :-) >> >> No I don't think so. >> >> But maybe we should be getting in the habit of always using >> "depends_foo-append" instead of "depends_foo". > > Would it make sense in that case to make depends_foo do depends_foo- > append, by default (and add depends_foo-reset for variants that might > need to supersede *all* dependencies instead of removing specific ones > with depends_foo-delete) ?
Seeing as how the only place that's going to be setting depends_foo prior to a Portfile would be a port group, that makes sense. Considering their functionality, would a Portfile ever need to override a group's dependencies? Bryan _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
