Question regarding +debug variant of KDE ports and qt4-mac

"Marko Käning" mk-macports at techno.ms
Mon Jun 30 00:41:31 PDT 2014


Hi Ian,
 
> I would also like us to consider something similar for +docs, especially with KDE.
> Also a +docs_kde would not have to be a different binary package - just a downloading
> and "compiling" of docs subdirectories with meinproc4, which will be already installed.

yes, that sounds very good. This helps us avoiding the meinproc4 issues met every now and then.

> Come to think of it, I don't think debug or docs in one port is usually dependent on any
> other port, except for the tools used to format documents, so perhaps MacPorts could
> have --debug and --docs options for port install, which would apply to the ports that
> were being "requested" on that installation run and on upgrades of same.

Well, that would be quite a change to port. Wondering what the macports devs will say.

Greets,
Marko


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