From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 16 18:10:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C37316A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:10:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hex.databits.net (hex.databits.net [216.118.117.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BAFB43D1F for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:10:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by hex.databits.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CFD9E57B07; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:10:31 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:10:31 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041016181031.GM42886@hex.databits.net> Mail-Followup-To: ports@freebsd.org References: <200410152156.16113.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20041016015034.GA92507@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <200410161331.01356.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20041016121159.GA41657@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20041016130214.GK10363@k7.mavetju> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QxIEt88oQPsT6QmF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041016130214.GK10363@k7.mavetju> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: alternative options for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:10:34 -0000 --QxIEt88oQPsT6QmF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:02:14PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 02:11:59PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > Although mplayer is a somewhat extreme example there are many other > > ports that also have several independent options, and would also > > require a large number of slave-ports to cover all configurations. >=20 > PHP with all its extensions has resolved it nicely. >=20 > Now if all software could be so modular everything would be sweet. Indeed. Please end this silly discussion. Packages should be taken into account wherever possible, and slave ports satisfy the need pretty well. They may not work for everything, however. :( Unfortunately, adding code for FLAVORS and friend is extremely nontrivial. I looked into that a few times, and we would need to more or less rewrite the whole functionality... and doing so in make-ese is difficult, to say the least. Regards, --=20 wca --QxIEt88oQPsT6QmF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBcWQXF47idPgWcsURAo8zAKCBR62A7ncGlazjle5OpKBdqQK4mQCfdpPJ 8Kx3uH+74D1iP5PIGtsdaDI= =Wmiq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QxIEt88oQPsT6QmF--