On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:46:21AM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'd like to specify that a port depends on one out of a group of > "similar" programs. Example: Some program that depends on one out of a > group of SQL-speaking services. How do I specify this w/o using a > flavour? I thought of a capability similar to "Provides:" in Debian so > you can depend on such a virtual package, but couldn't find a similar > thing in the ports system.
runtime depends do support alternates just fine, use |. There's no require/depend thingy, though, you have to specify the package specs that can solve the dependency yourself.
