Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 16:31:22 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthieu Volat <mazhe@alkumuna.eu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Splitting devel/subversion into SEVERAL ports -- how fine-grained do we want to see it? Message-ID: <462076727.20140608163122@serebryakov.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <20140608134142.4d4a0ae1@freedom.alkumuna.eu> References: <1438330868.20140608001618@serebryakov.spb.ru> <20140608134142.4d4a0ae1@freedom.alkumuna.eu>
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Hello, Matthieu. You wrote 8 =D0=B8=D1=8E=D0=BD=D1=8F 2014 =D0=B3., 15:41:42: MV> Holy... MV> Is this Debian now? How about 14 packages to have granularity over what MV> sub-library needed, and 23 others for each svn* command? And don't forg= et headers. MV> An aspect of ports I liked was it followed/respected the upstream MV> packaging mindset, instead of going for artificial repackaging like MV> linux distros. This minigame of cutting other people works in tiny MV> atomics bits so I have to figure what is missing at runtime is tiresome. MV> If this is a binary/options issue, I'd rather see an effort in MV> providing a system able to allow using globally packages with local MV> build when desired options differs, and the reverse (build everything MV> except a list of stuff where binary is prefered). With pkgng in play, I get more and more requests from people, who want to use only binary packages. And when such vital (for many) features as mod_dav_svn and (not so vital, but desirable) DE integration is non-default options of single port, it could not be done. BTW, nobody objects against separated language bindings, especially Java ones :) Really, I get requests to have "mod_dav_svn" package at least twice a mon= th for all time subversion port exists. But, yes, maybe separation to libraries and binaries is too much, and I need only extract apache-related stuff and DE-related stuff. --=20 // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
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