Auto-variants

[Jeff Johnson]

On Aug 7, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:

> For ports that pick up many dependencies, such as rpm52, we have two choices, either to install all dependencies or have variants.  rpm52 will find these dependencies:
> 
> checking for curl... /opt/local/bin/curl
> checking for gpg... /opt/local/bin/gpg
> checking for hg... /opt/local/bin/hg
> checking for install-info... /opt/local/bin/install-info
> checking for lzma... /opt/local/bin/lzma
> checking for svn... /opt/local/bin/svn
> checking for wget... /opt/local/bin/wget
> checking for xar... /opt/local/bin/xar
> checking for xz... /opt/local/bin/xz
> checking for doxygen... /opt/local/bin/doxygen
> 
> If you just wanted to get rpm2cpio, then this is a lot to build.  However, I have them installed and don't mind rpm52 using them, but as it stands, port doesn't know there's a dependency that rpm52 found.
> 

If all you want/need is rpm2cpio, then grab the shell script and
put it someplace:
	scripts/rpm2cpio*
Add it to port tools if you wish … its just a script.

73 de Jeff