#39897: Add 'optional' or 'recommended' metadata tags to portfile spec. --------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: c.herbig@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | --------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by larryv@…): I don’t think this is worth the development effort if all it does is display a list of maybe-useful ports. That’s what notes are for—to provide a single place to define information that should be displayed after a port has been installed. It’s not the most structured solution, but defining a wholly new Portfile option with special syntax (“description” fields and the like) seems needlessly complex. Likewise, simply giving “recommended” and “optional” labels to different dependencies based on the variants that require them would add complexity without commensurate utility. As far as I’m concerned, the only functionality that merits this is the ability to operate on recommended ports in the same way that we can currently operate on dependencies and dependents. (As you mentioned, many package managers allow for this.) It would probably require a great deal more work than simply adding a new option. The dependency engine would have to be made aware of this new relationship, and the semantics of the relationship would have to be thoroughly discussed. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39897#comment:11> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X