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Le 4 oct. 07 à 22:32, Emmanuel Hainry a écrit :

> Citando Rainer Müller :
>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> For what purpose? We already have the situation that when we want to
>>> make, say, both apache 2.0 and apache 2.2 available, we create two
>>> ports: apache20 and apache2, respectively. This works fine. What  
>>> do you
>>> need in addition to that?
>>
>> One could choose which version to install without loosing  
>> dependencies.
>> For example, all of our *-devel ports are useless because they  
>> break the
>> depedencies.
>> For example, you can't install something like apache2-devel and add
>> php5, because php5 depends on the normal apache2.
>>
>> With multiple version per port this would be possible. But it  
>> would also
>> require the introduction of new commands that allow a port to  
>> depend on
>> at least a specific version of another port.
>>
>> We could mark the different versions as "stable" or "unstable". With
>> this approach we would get a better environment to test port upgrades
>> with beta versions or release candidates.
>>
>
> Being a simple maintainer, I would say that dependencies on specific
> version (à la debian "this software require thingy version > 2.2.17  
> but
> it is not going to be installed") would make me unable to manage
> seriously my ports.
>

How would that make you unable to maintain your ports?
I don't understand your point.

> The not too untractable point however would be to introduce some
> metaports (for example, musicpd can be provided by mpd or mpd-dev),  
> and
> dependencies would be put to the metaport instead of one of the
> providing ports. It can at the moment be achieved through the old
> dependency scheme (sthg like depends_lib bin:mpd:mpd-devel) but that
> scheme cannot discriminate between something provided by macports and
> something provided by apple or another source.
>
> Emmanuel
>

We can use path:${prefix}/bin/mpd:mpd, but how manage things like  
postgresql8*?

For example, how could you easily set dependencies for packages such  
as phpmyadmin and phppgadmin?
You can't.

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