From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 14:50:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C038516A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:50:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914B043D55 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:50:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2EEo9Nm022339 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:50:09 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j2EEo9kP022337; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:50:09 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:50:09 GMT Message-Id: <200503141450.j2EEo9kP022337@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Jonatan B Subject: Re: ports/78774: Update net/libdnet 1.9 -> 1.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jonatan B List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:50:09 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/78774; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jonatan B To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock Cc: Sergey Matveychuk Subject: Re: ports/78774: Update net/libdnet 1.9 -> 1.10 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:47:25 +0200 On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:41:08 +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > This kind of smartness is not a good idea in general, because it does not > translate to binary packages. It's especially unsuitable for > language-bindings - if at some point another port needs libdnet's > python-bindings, it will have no way of depending on them. Consider creating > a slave-port for the python-bindings instead. Are you sure? IMO it seems hardly justified, because it will create too many flavour-ports. Will changing it to rely only on WITH_PYTHON (or WITHOUT_.., I don't care) be enough? If you feel strongly about it, though, then I have no problem with splitting this port.