Subject: Re: teTeX3-bin dependency on motif?
To: None <ghen@telenet.be>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/07/2005 17:06:18
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 15:01 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:26:09PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > Then how should we handle this?  
> > 
> > - Make openmotif a "conditional" dependency (as often done in FreeBSD's
> >   ports) ?  Use it if it's already there, don't use it if not.  
> 
> Hm, now that I think of it, this would make the outcome of bulk builds
> depend on the order of building, probably not what we want in pkgsrc.

This is why this kind of solution should be always avoided.  The
resulting binary packages should not depend on the order of other
installed stuff.

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