Ports recommending other ports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 8, 2009, at 21:24, Thomas de Grivel wrote:

> just thinking out loud :
> maybe we could suggest variants as well ?

I would say no to this suggestion, because a port should already come  
pre-configured for the recommended setup out-of-the-box without  
needing to select any variants. There may be variants to turn off  
certain recommendations if appropriate, but the user can find all  
that out by typing "port variants <portname>". But there is no  
command that a user can type today to get a list of other ports that  
are recommended in combination with a given port. In the cases I  
cited (graphviz and postgresql) the user can type "port search  
<portname>" and see those other ports, because they contain the  
original port's name, but that may not always be the case.


> and propose building (or even rebuilding) ports with more sensible
> variants according to installed ones ?

Could you elaborate or give an example?