[PATCH] port: dependencies for X11

Eric Hall opendarwin.org at darkart.com
Mon Jan 19 21:29:00 PST 2009


On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:22:14PM -0700, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 05:08:09AM +0000, Eric Hall said:
[snip]
> > 
> > 	I figured all of them, in case people want to use
> > the system installed X11.  Perhaps I misunderstood something
> > in the various emails, I thought there was mention of having
> > variants to allow the use of the system installed X11.
> 
> That's in the respective xorg-lib* ports, eg, xorg-libX11 [1]; so if
> port xyz depends on xorg-libX11, that either installs the library or,
> with +system_x11 set, nothing.
> 
> Bryan
> 
> [1] - <http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/x11/xorg-libX11/Portfile#L45>
> 

	Ahhhhh.  So close and yet so far...
	Much cleaner and nicer too (variant in one port rather
than in many many).


		-eric




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