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Subject: Re: Suggestion: USES=autoplist
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
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On 11/22/17 08:59, Brooks Davis wrote:
> Looking to the future, is the port an obviously candidate for FLAVORS or
> multi-packages?  If so, they you probably want to keep the current
> plist.  If not, then I guess it depends on your confidence that the port
> will remain well behaved.


Flavors and multi-packages will work fine with autoplist. autoplist 
always generates the plist according to the currently selected options.


Well-behavedness is what is really required for autoplist.


Yuri