pkgsrc-users: Re: Developing packges with alternates as dependencies?

Subject: Re: Developing packges with alternates as dependencies?
To: Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79@yahoo.com>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 04/27/2007 00:37:23

> Using package options to specify dependencies seems awkward, especially
> since the package has no native notion of this option (it just looks
> for the header it wants with 'configure').

Please choose the more popular of PKG_B or PKG_C as the default. Or choose 
the one that the developers of PKG_A say works best.

If you want to choose, please use options for this because we want 
packages built using pkgsrc to be consistent.

  Jeremy C. Reed