Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:50:09 GMT From: Jonatan B <onatan@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/78774: Update net/libdnet 1.9 -> 1.10 Message-ID: <200503141450.j2EEo9kP022337@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/78774; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jonatan B <onatan@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/78774: Update net/libdnet 1.9 -> 1.10 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:47:25 +0200 On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:41:08 +0100, Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> wrote: > This kind of smartness is not a good idea in general, because it does not > translate to binary packages. It's especially unsuitable for > language-bindings - if at some point another port needs libdnet's > python-bindings, it will have no way of depending on them. Consider creating > a slave-port for the python-bindings instead. Are you sure? IMO it seems hardly justified, because it will create too many flavour-ports. Will changing it to rely only on WITH_PYTHON (or WITHOUT_.., I don't care) be enough? If you feel strongly about it, though, then I have no problem with splitting this port.
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