[138188] trunk/dports/graphics/mscgen/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 5, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Andrew Fernandes wrote:
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>> This port already depends on the gd2 port, which depends on the freetype port, so shouldn't freetype support just be always enabled, rather than making it a variant? Wouldn't that be simpler?
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> Yes and no; the default configure script does not look for freetype unless you explicitly tell it to. So you have to add the "--with-freetype" flag. And, for clarity, if you add the flag, you should have freetype, I thought.

Absolutely. My point was: why do this in a variant? Why no do it all the time, since it will not require additional dependencies?

 
>> Note that this is not an openmaintainer port, so you should not make changes to it without the maintainer's permission, and should instead file a ticket with your proposed patch. If you did that and Landon didn't respond, you should reference the ticket number in your commit message as usual.
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> Yes, you're right, of course... my apologies.
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> I could have sworn that it said "openmaintainer"... but I think I had too many Portfiles open in my editor and appear to have misread.
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> I won't do that again (or at least, I'll double-check!) - I know that with this particular port my policy violation is benign, but know that there is a good reason not to do it in general!