portfile question concerning optional deps

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Thu Mar 3 14:26:25 PST 2011


On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 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.

Oh, I actually though you had fixed this ;-)

Do we need to audit ports that use bin/lib and see if we can just change the behavior in some future release?
 
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