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From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org>
To: Tobias Kortkamp <tobik@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r469874 - head/x11-fonts/fantasque-sans-mono
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Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 21:18:50 +0200
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 (Tobias Kortkamp's message of "Mon, 14 May 2018 12:56:47 +0200")
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Tobias Kortkamp <tobik@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Why do I have to download all variants when only one distfile is ever be used for each one?
> Why not use something like NORMAL_DISTFILES=FantasqueSansMono-Normal.tar.gz or
> NORMAL_VARS=DISTNAME=FantasqueSansMono-Normal instead of the
> _EXTRACT_ONLY helpers?

That probably works as well. Could you send a patch?