Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Re: UPDATE: graphviz-2.40.1

On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 04:29:26PM +0000, Edd Barrett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 02:48:52PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > Either list it as an "extra" WANTLIB (with a comment explaining that this
> > has been done so it doesn't get removed in future) or convert to
> > BUILD+RUN_DEPENDS (the first is probably better because it makes sure that
> > major changes to libtk will trigger an update of graphviz).
> > Should be listed as ${MODTK_WANTLIB} rather than the hardcoded "tk85"
> > that the port previously had.
>
> The BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS solution seems more correct to me
> here. It seems odd to add tk to WANTLIB if it's not actually linked.

You know that WANTLIB has some actual semantics behind it, right ?

Linked or not linked does not matter, the issue is what's going to happen
when the port gets updated.

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