On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Dieter Baron wrote:

>   One way to do so now is to explicitly check for it and set
> PKG_SKIP_REASON if it's not set:

>   But that would not be reflected in the ``make show-options'' output.

I thought of that too; it didn't seem very good because that's a lot to
replicate in a bunch of Makefiles for something as popular as inet6.

>   If we really want support for required options, I can add explicit
> support for this to the options framework (via the new variable
> PKG_OPTIONS_REQUIRED_OPTIONS, for example).

That would be a nice addition.  However, there's still the PKG_FAIL vs.
PKG_SKIP difference to worry about.

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