On 2011-2-25 16:03 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Second, the a problem with this strategy in the first place is that you're > declaring a dependency on the binary "python", and telling MacPorts to > install python_select if it can't find one, and then making the scripts run > "/opt/local/bin/python". But /usr/bin/python will satisfy the dependency; > MacPorts would never install python_select in response to this dependency > declaration. > > Third, just installing "python_select" doesn't create /opt/local/bin/python; > the user would have to run python_select and select a particular python to > make that work. The python selected by python_select is supposed to be for > the user's use only; ports installed by MacPorts should not be trying to make > use of that. Instead, ports should depend on a specific version of python, > and use that python binary.
There are some other ports like glib2 that use this bogus dependency, so they should be fixed too. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
