Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 09:06:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net> To: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl> Cc: <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: optional dependencies Message-ID: <20020525090240.O444-100000@femme.listmistress.org> In-Reply-To: <20020525125354.GA62149@jochem.dyndns.org>
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On Sat, 25 May 2002, Jochem Kossen wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> One of my ports was just committed, audio/cplay. CPlay is a frontend to
> various mp3/ogg/whatever players, and it's written in Python (i.e. it
> doesn't need to be compiled).
>
> So the issue is, should i list the various players as (optional)
> RUN_DEPENDS or should I just create a pkg-message which says to install
> at least one player?
>
I would go with the pkg-message way, personally.
My reason: since there are muliple choices for players, having RUN_DEPENDS
defined would most likely force the user to edit the Makefile in order to
have these dependencies work with the player of choice. With a message,
you can at least notify them that it won;t work without one of x number
of players listed installed.
> Technically spoken, cplay runs without a single player, but then you
> can't play any music. If I specify a single dependency on one player, i
> have to make a choice which is always wrong...
>
see above, you kinda answered your own question though :)
-Trish
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