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Date:      Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:16:15 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
To:        Luca Pizzamiglio <luca.pizzamiglio@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: FLAVORS (initial version) and subpackages proposals
Message-ID:  <20161222201615.c3vxi2fab7iqeo6t@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 05:41:17PM +0100, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I think it's a nice to have and an improvement.
> It's quite clean, even if the number of Makefile's can really increase.
>=20
> I've some questions:
>=20
> Q1) It seems obvious (at least to me), that DOCS and EXAMPLES
> should/could become subpackages.
> How it could be handled by pkg? Are you thinking to add some "magic"
> to enable or disable the automatic installation of specific
> subpackages?

It depends having a subpackage for a bunch of README files is useless while
having a subpackage for ports with loads of html/pdf files would deserve it=
 yes.

Note that there is "magic" planned in pkg at all :)
>=20
> Q2) are we opening the door the -devel packages like some Linux distros?

That is an entirely different direction and this would be a policy discussi=
on.

In short:
1/ technically, yes it would allow that
2/ is that what I am aiming at: not at all
>=20
> Q3) Do you think there is a general way to decide what should stay an
> OPTION and what should/could become a FLAVOR?

Nope that would be probably mostly driven by common sense
>=20
> Q4) Can FLAVORs be in CONFLICT with each others or only conflict-free
> FLAVOR will be accepted?
> If ports can depend to FLAVOR, strange CONFLICTS can arise..

yes flavor can conflict but pkg will detect the conflict and propose to rep=
lace
the previous flavor if needed
>=20

Best regards,
Bapt

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