portfile question concerning optional deps

Marko Käning MK-MacPorts at techno.ms
Thu Mar 3 14:21:53 PST 2011


> Do not use bin:- or lib:-style dependencies for this purpose; they would allow a file outside of the MacPorts prefix to satisfy the dependency, and we don't want that. Use only path:-style.

OK, good to know.

Thanks, Ryan. So, I'll go for path.


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