Subject: Re: choosing between dependencies
To: None <ansgar@2006.43-1.org>
From: OBATA Akio <obata@lins.jp>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/08/2006 11:05:06
Hi,

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:16:02 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> I try to create a package for ifhp[1], a print filter developed for LPRng.
> As the package requires ghostscript I put
> 	DEPENDS+= ghostscript-gnu-[0-9]*:../../print/ghostscript-gnu
> into the Makefile.  But this way it isn't possible to use any of the other
> three ghostscript packages together with my package.
> 
> I thought about adding a option and then adding dependencies depending on
> the setting, but this doesn't look like an elegant solution.
> 
> How should this be handeled best?  The pkgsrc documentation doesn't say
> anything about this (at least I didn't find anything).

USE_TOOLS+= gs:run

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