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Subject: Re: [HEADUP] FLAVORS landing.
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On 27/9/17 4:48 pm, Kirill Ponomarev via freebsd-ports wrote:
> On 09/27, Tilman Keskinöz wrote:
>>
>> On 2017-09-27 08:29, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>> On 27/09/2017 07:11, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>> Is there a document/paper on what this is and what it's limits are etc?
>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/FlavorsAndSubPackages
>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/FlavorsMigration
>>>
>> These pages don't contain any information what this is, how it differs
>> from/interacts with the OPTIONS framework and why I would want to
>> convert a port to FLAVORS.
> I'd like to ask portmgr team to provide this information as well as
> their vision for future correlations between OPTIONS, FLAVORS and
> slave ports.
>
> K.

I second this request.

more clarity in direction is needed.