On Tuesday November 10 2015 02:17:06 Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> This is the same solution we've used elsewhere in MacPorts (eg: >> ffmpeg-devel). > >That's not the same situation. If a user had been using glib2 and then later >needed to switch to glib2-devel for some reason, everything should still
Indeed. Still, the mod Jeremy introduced is the best/only way I know to allow choice that doesn't involve introducing an SSL PortGroup that provides +openssl and +libressl variants. >I don't know how carefully the ffmpeg developers version their software. Neither do I, but they do seem to care little (less) about maintaining backwards ABI compatibility like Qt does ... ;) >> You'd need to revupgrade rebuild after switching. > >That's not especially desired. No, but if the ABIs are indeed not compatible there is no other solution, is there? R. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
