On Saturday, November 25, Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=F6gele?= wrote: > > I'm struggling with one problem. > > On startup, BackupPC version 3 checks whether all executables that are > specified in the configuration file exist. BackupPC quits if an > executable is missing. Thus the current port depends on the optional > packages gtar, samba, bzip2, rsync and par2cmdline. > > 2. We could set the path names of the optional executables to the > empty string so that BackupPC doesn't look for these executables on > startup. But then users would have to set the path names manually > in the configuration when an optional package is installed.
This is the simplest. It's a configuration file. Why make a port depend on unneeded things? And why add complexity with flavours? Just an IMHO. --Toby.
