> What I'm trying to avoid is having to add boilerplate code to hundreds of > ports. So I guess that means yet another portgroup to do this. But even that > -- editing hundreds of possibly optionally X11-using portfiles to insert the > inclusion of that portgroup only when X11 is actually going to be used -- is > a big effort.
i was imagining just one key port — gtk, or some other always installed required supporting lib — would do the test. K