[PATCH] port: dependencies for X11

Bryan Blackburn blb at macports.org
Mon Jan 19 21:36:30 PST 2009


On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 05:29:00AM +0000, Eric Hall said:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:22:14PM -0700, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 05:08:09AM +0000, Eric Hall said:
> [snip]
> > > 
> > > 	I figured all of them, in case people want to use
> > > the system installed X11.  Perhaps I misunderstood something
> > > in the various emails, I thought there was mention of having
> > > variants to allow the use of the system installed X11.
> > 
> > That's in the respective xorg-lib* ports, eg, xorg-libX11 [1]; so if
> > port xyz depends on xorg-libX11, that either installs the library or,
> > with +system_x11 set, nothing.
> > 
> > Bryan
> > 
> > [1] - <http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/x11/xorg-libX11/Portfile#L45>
> > 
> 
> 	Ahhhhh.  So close and yet so far...
> 	Much cleaner and nicer too (variant in one port rather
> than in many many).

Actual, in several (30-some-odd xorg-lib* ports and a couple of other,
similar ones), but at least grouped just to those X11-specific ports instead
of having to go into any app-type port which needs X11...

Bryan


> 
> 
> 		-eric


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