[Slackbuilds-users] OPTIONAL field [was: qemu/spice-gtk and usbredir]

[Thomas Szteliga]

On 11/07/2016 12:14 PM, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
> I haven't slept too long and came up with the following idea
> (this assumes that we do *somehow* agree on some tags in README):
> The following optional, not auto-detected packages enable additional
> features (you need to install the package and set environment variable):
> [opt] libass, [env] ASS=yes|no [/opt], for ASS support,
> [opt] libbluray, [env] BLURAY=yes|no [/opt], for BLURAY support,
> [opt] libiec61883, libavc1394, [env] IEC61883=yes|no [/opt], for
> IEC61883 support,


IMVHO that's way too complicated.


My suggestion:

OPTIONAL=libass,libbluray,libiec61883,libavc1394

Slackbuilds could simply enable/disable optional deps
by checking if the defined package is available in /var/log/packages.


-- 
Thomas Szteliga


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