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Subject: Re: Option vs. flavor?
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On 12/16/17 11:14, Ben Woods wrote:
> The original post was requesting that the port make fetch only downloads
> the data conditionally based on the option. Not sure how possible that is.


Yes, I was in doubt too. sub-packages will probably always fetch and 
build, and I am trying to avoid that.

So I would just stick to flavor. @withData should be a virtual flavor, 
that can be built on demand.

IMO, this makes most sense.


Yuri