Re: Developing packges with alternates as dependencies?

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:21:36PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Yes, I think so.  The options.mk file for sysutils/memtestplus has
> 
> BUILD_DEPENDS+={cdrtools,cdrtools-ossdvd}>=2.01:../../sysutils/cdrtools

That will pick cdrtools (in this case) if neither is installed.  Another
possibility is using PKG_OPTIONS, so the user can set the preferred
dependency beforehand.

        Geert