Re: circular dependancies

Chris Giard <cgiard.ports@magerealm.com> wrote:

> Is there a decent way to somehow express a circular dependancy to the

No. You can't have circular dependencies.

> This would leave you with the following set of combinations:

You can specify the dependencies such that openldap-sasl2 requires cyrus-sasl2 without ldap flavor, and vice versa. See packages-specs(7).

> Since I'm not sure how the packages are built to be put up on the ftp

It comes down to cd /usr/ports && make package, with subsequent manual fixup of conflicts.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

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