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Date:      Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:42:50 +0000
From:      Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Option vs. flavor?
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 at 8:29 am, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:

> On 12/16/17 11:14, Ben Woods wrote:
> > The original post was requesting that the port make fetch only download=
s
> > 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


Hi Yuri,

Is there any reason why you want to avoid the download with the port =E2=80=
=9Cmake
fetch=E2=80=9D?

This should not impact you if it uses subpackages and you just install the
program with pkg.

Regards,
Ben

> --

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