#14220 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Warn or handle deactivated dependencies
Reported by: | saul.hazledine@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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Priority: | Low | Milestone: | |
Component: | base | Version: | 1.6.0 |
Keywords: | activate dependencies | Cc: | |
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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 17 years ago by vinc17@…
Resolution: | → duplicate |
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Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by jmpalacios (Juan Manuel Palacios)
Component: | ports → base |
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comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
Milestone: | MacPorts Future |
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Dup of #7361.