Hi Jacob, On 13.05.2008, at 00:00, Jacob Schwartz wrote:
Can I rephrase my question then? What if the port maintainer included a bogus dependency -- in this case, the Haskell-mode for emacs *in no way* requires the port "ghc". Absolutely does not require it. The Haskell-mode can be very useful to people who never intend to run "ghc". What now? We contact the port maintainer and ask them to fix the problem and then wait for them to update the macports database before we install?
you already got a long and detailed answer by Ryan; the short version is this:
Please fix your local Portfile (i.e., for Haskell-mode provide a variant "noghc", for yudit update to the latest version), make sure the updated port works, create a diff to the original Portfile, create a ticket requesting the update, and attach the diff.
Typically this will be submitted over the course of a few days to be available for everybody, otherwise you have to bug the maintainer or mailing list until it's done.
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