From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Sep 27 03:30:37 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BBAE298AF for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 03:30:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (unknown [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67BD41462; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 03:30:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.26] (cpe-23-242-94-236.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.94.236]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 525cf384 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [HEADUP] FLAVORS landing. To: Mel Pilgrim , Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Andy Farkas Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <344ede5c-4147-aab3-a54e-a54aa1f6c4c5@FreeBSD.org> <59CA9EE1.7040705@andyit.com.au> <20170926235609.GC3564@eureka.lemis.com> <60dff9c5-e64f-8069-1c41-31ecaca884df@bluerosetech.com> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <6a9e2dba-adfb-24db-9c8f-0d309e206b9e@nomadlogic.org> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:30:34 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <60dff9c5-e64f-8069-1c41-31ecaca884df@bluerosetech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 03:30:37 -0000 On 09/26/2017 17:43, Mel Pilgrim wrote: > On 09/26/2017 16:56, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at 4:39:29 +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: >>> On 27/09/2017 04:22, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >>> >>>> Please read the whole email. >>> >>> What are FLAVORS and why do I need it? >>> >>> Is there somewhere that explains the intent and purpose? >> >> Thank you!  Just the question I was going to ask. > > FLAVORS allows a pkg repo to contain variations of the same port. For > example, a port that has two mutually exclusive options can now exist > in the public repo as both builds (each with their own FLAVOR suffix), > rather than requiring the port maintainer select a default and force > users of the other to compile the port themselves, or do things like > maintain subports. thanks for the clarification - this sounds like a really useful feature for my workflow at least.  i can actually think of several linux distros where something like this would have saved me lots of cycles due to having to maintain my own versions (or flavors i guess) of common packages. -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA