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Subject: Re: port variants
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Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote:

> While I think makefile-options is the way to go, I should also
> point out that for the specific case of emacs and X11, it is
> not used due to the very large differences. Other "variants"
> are handled via options, but there are separate emacs and
> emacs-nox11 ports.
> ...
> The port maintainer/developer has to make a call as to which
> approach is more practical, but I suspect portmgr@ will press
> for maximum use of makefile-options.

One reason to use a slave port instead of an option is so that both
configurations will be routinely build-tested, and corresponding
packages made available.  Any one port can have only one "default"
configuration.