[56941] trunk/dports/archivers/unnks/Portfile

[Jeremy Lavergne]

>>>>> unnks: allow glib2-devel to satisfy glib2 dependency
>>>>
>>>> Would it be better yet to use lib:glib-2.0:glib2 ?
>>>
>>> No, because that would allow a glib2 installed outside of MacPorts  
>>> to satisfy the dependency, and we don't want that.
>>
>> Why do we allow bin:...:latex?
>
> Because we want to allow MacTeX installed outside of MacPorts to  
> satisfy the dependency. This is an exception to the usual rule,  
> because TeX is hard to build and the MacPorts TeX ports tend to lag  
> far behind TeX releases. And I'm told by those who use TeX that  
> MacTeX is pretty good.
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20939

Awesome, thanks for clearing that up :-)