[Slackbuilds-users] Needing requirements built with options

[King Beowulf]

On 07/14/2014 02:08 PM, Doogster wrote:
> I'm about to submit a new version of gnome-inform7, and I've run into a
> problem. It requires gst1-plugins-bad, and it needs gst1-plugins-bad to
> have been built with libmodplug support. The problem is that
> gst1-plugins-bad lists libmodplug as an optional dependency, not as a
> hard one. How should I handle that,
> 
> The best solution I can think of is to specify gst1-plugins-bad in the
> info file as a hard requirement, then mention in the README that
> gst1-plugins-bad needs to have been built against libmodplug. Is there a
> better way?
> 

IMO,  think that is the best way.  Specify the dep in .info, then give
"gotchas" in the README.  This might trip up the sbopkg users, but short
of including a "special" gst1-plugings-bad, it'll be hard to cover every
use case.  After all, we should all be reading the README, right?

-Ed