system_x11 variant - where to draw the line

[Jeremy Huddleston]

replied to the wrong email there... please ignore...

On Jan 6, 2009, at 23:47, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> BTW, how are you building all the dependencies?  Are you using fink?  
> macports? by hand?
>
> On Jan 6, 2009, at 22:42, Joshua Root wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>> So right now the system_x11 variant exists in all the xorg library
>>> ports.  This covers everything that could be installed in
>>> ${x11prefix}/lib with the exception of freetype, cairo,  
>>> fontconfig, and
>>> png.  I did that since that's more or less where the boundary is  
>>> between
>>> "what we use from x11prefix" and "what we use from prefix" is now by
>>> default (enforced by the lib:...:... style dependencies for xorg  
>>> libs
>>> and port: style dependencies for the others mentioned above).  I'd  
>>> like
>>> to expand that by adding a system_x11 variant to freetype, cairo,  
>>> and
>>> fontconfig to allow users to use the version of these packages in
>>> x11prefix if they're available.  Does anyone have compelling  
>>> reasons why
>>> not to do that which I might be missing?
>>
>> It seems odd to call the variant 'system_x11' in those cases, since
>> they're not necessarily used as part of X11 at all. Would it be more
>> appropriate to change the dependents that use them with X11?
>>
>> I admit I haven't looked into it enough to know if there would be
>> problems either way.
>>
>> BTW, does all this mean that we should be mass-changing  
>> lib:libX11:blah
>> deps to port:xorg-libX11? (Or a different port?)
>>
>> - Josh
>
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