Re: How to add optional dependencies?

[Adrian Portelli <adrianp%stindustries.net@localhost>]

Jens Rehsack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> according to PR's pkg/39541, pkg/39542 and pkg/39543 I have one
> question: how can I add optional dependencies (e.g. devel/p5-IO-Socket
> depends on
> net/p5-Net-LibIDN, if available or special wanted or so)?
> 
> The background is, PPI, IO::Socket (and some other CPAN modules) configures
> themself dependend whether those modules are installed or not. When I
> create
> packages (*.pkg), I want the dependencies recorded, so that I don't need
> manually interact which additional pkg's must be installed to get PPI
> running as wanted etc.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jens

Why not just use the options.mk framework for this ?

adrian.