path depends with wildcard?

[Michael Dickens]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 02:26 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> I suppose you're not supporting any random swig version, so how about
> doing what the python Portfile itself does, a foreach over a list of
> known versions? swig-python and swig-python-devel both don't install a
> single common file?

I could create a PortGroup called swig-1.0 which handles this: yes, that
is true. Not pretty, but it could work. I'd prefer to not have to do
this, given the number of ports that use SWIG (something like 82, from a
quick search). Maybe this is actually the better way to go ... have to
think about this.

> Alternatively someone could implement stub or virtual ports, if they
> don't exist already, a feature by which port:swig-python-devel itself can
> signal that it provides port:swig-python, rather than leaving it up to
> client code to figure out if something equivalent to port:swig-python is
> installed.

Nope; no that way. - MLD