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To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Staging, packaging and more
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on 03/10/2013 11:48 Baptiste Daroussin said the following:
> This also allows lots of new features to come:
> - Allow to create sub-packages
> - Allow to create debuginfo packages.

I'd like to mention a few other possibilities along the same lines:
- doc packages
- examples packages
- "devel" packages (headers, tools and other files required for compiling
dependent software, but not generally needed for an end user)

All open up to a debate, of course.

Thank you very much for doing this major step!

> - Allow to do a lot of sanity check in the staging area to improve our QA

-- 
Andriy Gapon