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Date:      Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:43:50 -0400
From:      Sahil Tandon <sahil@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, Frederic Culot <culot@FreeBSD.org>, Eric <freebsdports@chillibear.com>, "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/rubygem-mail Makefile distinfo
Message-ID:  <20110727004348.GE1441@magic.hamla.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E2F5CA2.7090107@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:32:34 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 07/26/2011 10:00, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> > Normally, I 100% agree with Doug.  But we're not only talking about ruby
> >  here, we're talking about rails.  I hard a hard time naming gems that
> > don't do this crap.  I almost replied yesterday and said add an option,
> > but IMHO either way is fine, and not worth diddling over.
> 
> There are at least 3 possible ways to handle this situation:
> 
> 1. Force the dependency

I hope we can avoid this.

> 2a. Have an OPTION and error out if the user chooses WITHOUT_FOO and foo
> is installed.

For what (little) it's worth, my vote is for 2a.

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sahil@FreeBSD.org>



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