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OpenColorIO skips find_package for some 3rd party dependencies when "PackageName_ROOT" is defined
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OpenColorIO has some 3rd party dependencies for which custom "FindPackageName.cmake" files have been written. Examples: yaml-cpp, Imath, minizip-ng,... These all check if the "PackageName_ROOT" variable is defined and if not they call find_package(PackageName).
For example for yaml-cpp:
```
# Search for yaml-cpp-config.cmake
if(NOT DEFINED yaml-cpp_ROOT)
find_package(yaml-cpp ${yaml-cpp_FIND_VERSION} CONFIG ${quiet})
endif()
```
The [CMake documentation of find_package](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/find_package.html) states however that the location referred to by the variable "PackageName_ROOT" is searched first to find the package. In our build setup we do set this variable so that find_package commands will find the appropriate version (i.e., the one we build from source). Because of "if(NOT DEFINED...)" the find_package call is skipped in this case, which is unexpected behavior for us.
What is the reasoning behind this implementation? At first sight it doesn't seem to comply with the CMake docs.
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