[46046] trunk/dports

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:48:58AM +0100, Olivier Le Floch said:
> On 28 janv. 09, at 05:12, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jan 27, 2009, at 16:11, illogic-al at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> Append depends_lib because the one in the kde4 portgroup will get  
>>> lost otherwise.
>>> We should have depends_lib.pre_args :-)
>>
>> No I don't think so.
>>
>> But maybe we should be getting in the habit of always using  
>> "depends_foo-append" instead of "depends_foo".
>
> Would it make sense in that case to make depends_foo do depends_foo- 
> append, by default (and add depends_foo-reset for variants that might  
> need to supersede *all* dependencies instead of removing specific ones  
> with depends_foo-delete) ?

Seeing as how the only place that's going to be setting depends_foo prior to
a Portfile would be a port group, that makes sense.  Considering their
functionality, would a Portfile ever need to override a group's
dependencies?

Bryan