This seems extremely verbose to me. Is there any benefit to be gained
from doing this?
On Feb 15, 2007, at 4:40 AM, Randall Wood wrote:
Here is a quick example of how a port may work:
configure.args --enable-foo --prefix=${prefix} # --prefix in
here only for the example
variant no_foo {
configure.args-delete --enable-foo
configure.args-append --disable-foo # this line is often missing
}
And how I would like to see the above port written:
configure.args --prefix=${prefix}
default-variants +enable_foo
variant enable_foo conflicts disable_foo {
configure.args-append --enable-foo
}
variant disable_foo conflicts enable_foo {
configure.args-append --disable-foo
}
The second version of the same file does the same thing, but I find
that it is easier to work with. Note also that if the line that is
commented "this line is often missing" is missing, then the port
may install in a non-deterministic way, installing with foo enabled
because the package's configure script auto-selects that.
--
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
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