Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#14220 closed enhancement (duplicate)

Warn or handle deactivated dependencies

Reported by: saul.hazledine@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Low Milestone:
Component: base Version: 1.6.0
Keywords: activate dependencies Cc:
Port:

Description

In the situation where a new port, A, is being installed and depends on a port B.

If B is installed (but deactivated) A will start installing and then hit an error during the build. The error appears as a build error to the untrained eye.

As a new user, I thought there was an error with the port and raised a ticket when none needed to be raised. I feel bad about this but suspect I wasn't the first person to install on a deactivated dependency and then get a build error.

There are many different behaviours that could be less confusing to people like myself. As a suggestion though, would it be possible to warn the user if a dependency was deactivated?

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by vinc17@…

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Dup of #7361.

comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by jmpp@…

Component: portsbase

comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Milestone: MacPorts Future
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