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.

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