[46046] trunk/dports

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>> Would it make sense in that case to make depends_foo do depends_foo-
>> append, by default (and add depends_foo-reset for variants that might
>> need to supersede *all* dependencies instead of removing specific  
>> ones
>> with depends_foo-delete) ?
>
> Seeing as how the only place that's going to be setting depends_foo  
> prior to
> a Portfile would be a port group, that makes sense.  Considering their
> functionality, would a Portfile ever need to override a group's
> dependencies?


I've done it before (for a portfile I don't think I ever submitted,  
though).

I find the current syntax clear, and would rather just see the  
documentation and examples updated to recommend using the -append  
versions.

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