On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Johnny Lam wrote:

> We don't have a way (yet) to express needing p5-CGI>=3.0 and not pulling in
> the pkgsrc module if the one in the core library satisfies that dependency,
> other than the rather verbose:
>
>     DEPENDS+=    {p5-CGI>=3.0,perl>=5.8.5}:../../www/p5-CGI
>
> This is annoying only because you need to track down which version of perl
> first had that module version included in the core, in order to hardcode it
> into the dependency.

Perhaps a builtin.mk stub (or similar goop in the appropriate buildlink3.mk)
can do this sort of thing for us?

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>