Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:19:11 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), drosih@rpi.edu Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <200207081519.g68FJBXJ064277@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Garrett Wollman's message of Jul 8, 4:04am
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> From: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) > Date: Mon 8 Jul, 2002 > Subject: Re: Package system flaws? > It would be nice to have a mechanism like the following (since we're > all expressing our wishlists here): > > - Each port contains an enumeration of the possible variants and > on-off options. Some options might not make sense with all possible > variants, so the listing of options is per-variant. Some options > might not be compatible with each other, so there needs to be a way > to handle that as well. > > (The distinction I'm making here is that a `variant' changes the > behavior of the resulting program or library, in such a way as other > programs or libraries using it might depend upon, whereas an `option' > simply causes additional files to be installed, which might or might > not add functionality.) I like this taxonomy. Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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