Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 13:10:13 -0400 From: "Hyun Hwang" <hyun@caffeinated.codes> To: "Adam Weinberger" <adamw@adamw.org> Cc: "FreeBSD Ports" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can two ports have master-slave relatioship across categories? Message-ID: <01be8456-9063-4a62-a241-db58aaf7cf68@www.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAP7rwchOjWLZZ48Pw-JnnT8k%2B1E6rFVKZ2AEpic1khNKQyduXA@mail.gmail.com> References: <c9f6acf7-ae91-416c-9cdd-7a06299fa470@www.fastmail.com> <CAP7rwchOjWLZZ48Pw-JnnT8k%2B1E6rFVKZ2AEpic1khNKQyduXA@mail.gmail.com>
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Cool! I'll start working on "enslaving" other three.
Thanks!
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Hyun "Harold" Hwang
On Sunday, April 14, 2019, 1:08 PM (UTC-04:00), Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 10:36 AM Hyun Hwang <hyun@caffeinated.codes> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Source Han Sans is a font that supports 4 East Asian languages at the same time. Thus initially, I have split the font into four when porting; chinese/sourcehansans-{sc,tc}-otf, {japanese,korean}/sourcehansans-otf, respectively.
> > These four have all their own Makefile, pkg-plist, distinfo, ..., which now I think are great redundancy. This is what master and slave ports are for, right?
> >
> > Question is: can these four have a master-slave relationship across their respective categories?
> > I have schemed the Porter's Handbook, but it does not mention anything about redefining essential variables such as CATEGORIES, etc.
>
> Hi Harold,
>
> Absolutely! There's essentially no limit to what can be redefined.
> Just use CATEGORIES?= in the master.
>
> # Adam
>
>
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> Adam Weinberger
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