Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:53:26 +0200 From: Marcus von Appen <mva@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port system "problems" Message-ID: <20120626185326.GD2540@medusa.sysfault.org> In-Reply-To: <20120626083916.GI41054@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <4FE8E4A4.9070507@gmail.com> <20120626065732.GH41054@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20120626092645.Horde.HytQbVNNcXdP6WQ1aMtjoMA@webmail.df.eu> <20120626083916.GI41054@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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--2Z2K0IlrPCVsbNpk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On, Tue Jun 26, 2012, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: [...] > > >> 2. Option system is not really well documented > > > What kind of documentation do you need?, please report what you are > > > expected so > > > that we can improve it > > > > > >> 3. Some dependencies are totally useless > > > Please report PR > > > > > >> 4. So slow... > > > What is slow do you mean compiling is slow? > > > > > >> > > >> Let me give some examples: > > >> > > >> 1. games/wesnoth should be splitted in games/wesnoth-bin and > > >> games/wesnoth-datas. Why rebuild everything when just binaries needs ? > > > > > > This is coming, it takes lot of time, and some things have to be > > > done first, in > > > the infrastructure that the user do not see much. > > > > I do not see any necessity for infrastructure changes here - we did that > > in the past for several ports (e.g. alephone, alienarena, ...). > > No be able to have sub packages and flavours (aka N packages from one port) > there are changes needed Being able to and having the need to do something are two different things. Do we need this or do we make things more complex by taking sub-packages into consideration (for both or either one, the ports Makefile infrastructure and package tool(s))? Cheers Marcus --2Z2K0IlrPCVsbNpk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk/qBSYACgkQi68/ErJnpke+gACfQWHsSpJWDpuZtXsnt0WAQCQA rFAAmwWQ0NFLq5vcaNMwVLTw8Jbukiv7 =2F46 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2Z2K0IlrPCVsbNpk--
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