From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 26 19:41:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6CB106564A for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:41:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mva@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtprelay05.ispgateway.de (smtprelay05.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65888FC0A for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [89.182.27.31] (helo=localhost) by smtprelay05.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Sjbd8-00036y-TK for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:40:55 +0200 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:43:11 +0200 From: Marcus von Appen To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120626194311.GG2540@medusa.sysfault.org> References: <4FE8E4A4.9070507@gmail.com> <20120626065732.GH41054@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20120626092645.Horde.HytQbVNNcXdP6WQ1aMtjoMA@webmail.df.eu> <4FE96BA0.6040005@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120626103400.Horde.8frYBVNNcXdP6XP4ZP-0deA@webmail.df.eu> <20120626084433.GJ41054@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20120626185048.GC2540@medusa.sysfault.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JkW1gnuWHDypiMFO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Df-Sender: MzIwMDk1 Subject: Re: Port system "problems" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Marcus von Appen List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:41:36 -0000 --JkW1gnuWHDypiMFO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On, Tue Jun 26, 2012, Mark Felder wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:50:48 -0500, Marcus von Appen > wrote: > > > I still do not see any reason or argument on why we would need > > sub-packages. > > I want up to date packages for all my servers. My servers all have > different requirements -- I want Apache with LDAP here, and definitely > Apache without LDAP there. Designing a package-building and deployment > system for a non-homogenous server farm is an exercise in futility. Having > proper sub-packages fixes this issue in a cleanly supportable fashion. That sound good to me and something I'd vote for, since it does not split ports on a technical, but functional level into packages. Cheers Marcus --JkW1gnuWHDypiMFO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk/qEM8ACgkQi68/ErJnpkeHXwCgvRH5XUJk/nMk1m4md/Ma8WVl TwYAoMDSPuP+0hOQ5LZkJPEJRhe5aX/r =Daoa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JkW1gnuWHDypiMFO--