a coprehensive searcheable ports list?

[Kevin Ballard]

Oh that's not good. Non-deterministic ports are a bad thing. Any sort  
of auto-detection like this should be explicitly declared, via  
switches to ./configure telling it not to use the optional library by  
default, with a variant that adds a dependency on that library and  
changes the ./configure switches as appropriate.

The next time you find a non-deterministic port, I would recommend  
emailing the maintainer about it.

On Jan 31, 2007, at 4:47 AM, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:

> However, it requires macports to become deterministic... At the  
> moment,
> if you install the same packages on two identic machines, you can  
> obtain
> different files installed depending on the order in which the packages
> are installed (for example, installing flac before libsndfile makes
> libsndfile compile with flac support). I find this undeterministic
> behaviour to be a good thing: it makes it possible for some ports to
> take into account some particular libraries I have made personal
> portfiles for without requiring to edit the portfiles of every
> dependents programs, but it makes the updating a bit hazardous.

-- 
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
eridius at macports.org
http://www.tildesoft.com


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