On Jun 23, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 23, 2015, at 11:20 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> 
>>>> So those modules would just include python-1.0 before github-1.0.
>>> 
>>> That would be horribly confusing even for me.
>> 
>> I think discussing this makes it sound more complex than it will be in 
>> practice.
> 
> I have to agree with Mojca here. If order of inclusion of portgroups is 
> important, that's confusing, especially if the required order is not 
> alphabetical. We do seem to have a compulsion to alphabetize things like 
> portgroup inclusion, dependencies, configure args, etc., under the assumption 
> that order doesn't matter.

That is true.

> Of course I understand that MacPorts will run the portgroup code in the order 
> specified in the portfile, but we should try to structure portgroup so that 
> the order of inclusion doesn't matter. Sometimes that is difficult to do.

Yes, that would be best of course. In any case, I haven't played with possible 
implementations yet.

vq
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