Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#21046 new enhancement

Guide: mention using -append/-delete in 4.2 Creating a Portfile

Reported by: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
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Component: guide Version:
Keywords: Cc: cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
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Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))

Jim Busser sent this Guide feedback to macports-mgr:

Under 4.2 Creating a Portfile > 14. Port dependencies

where it says
	A port's dependencies are ports that must be installed before another port is installed.
and gives the example
	depends_lib
might it be worth cautioning to
	see 5.3.2.1 (bullet 2) on preferred use of the -append, -delete keyword modifiers

This should be considered not only for the depends_lib example but also for the configure.args example and the categories example, since portgroups commonly define those.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)

Description: modified (diff)

comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Description: modified (diff)

Actually I was trying to copy Jim's email into the ticket verbatim, and provide visual distinction between the text he sent me and my commentary on it.

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: egall@… added

Cc Me!

comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Owner: changed from markd@… to macports-tickets@…

markd has retired. See #44782.

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