Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 10:28:41 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: "Dan Mahoney (Gushi)" <freebsd@gushi.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package depending on any one of multiple FLAVORS Message-ID: <4a6966fc-ba41-4f7c-0fee-ab7791f5c5a2@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1802060242100.63233@prime.gushi.org> References: <a68dd627-9ead-67db-411e-d3686bb1e250@weboutsourcing.cz> <80f97518-b6db-3cbe-b426-1356e2a196eb@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1802060242100.63233@prime.gushi.org>
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On 06/02/2018 10:43, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> This is down to a deficiency in pkg(8) -- it can't handle having a >> number of alternate packages or ranges of different package versions to >> fulfil a dependency. The dependencies "baked into" each package are on >> exactly the dependency package and version used at compilation time. > > This feels a lot like what I was just asking about, as well. Are there > plans for this dependency to be addressed in the future? My brief > combing of the wiki didn't find any kind of a roadmap or anything like > that. Well, this is one of about three wide-ranging changes to the ports that are currently in play. That is: Flavours, Sub-packages and Variable dependencies. I believe the plan is to implement them in that order -- so Flavours has landed now, but there's a lot of work ongoing to apply it everywhere it is needed. There's a code review up for sub-packages, but that project is still in the very early stages. Variable dependencies will probably happen sometime after all that. It needs a bunch of code changes in pkg(8) and then a lot of wide-ranging changes in the ports tree itself. So, don't get too excited just yet... Cheers, Matthew
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