From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 10:40:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506C516A4CF for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:40:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E6D343D64 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:40:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 17434 invoked by uid 65534); 14 Oct 2004 10:40:51 -0000 Received: from pD955FD27.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO lofi.dyndns.org) (217.85.253.39) by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 14 Oct 2004 12:40:51 +0200 X-Authenticated: #443188 Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9EAfCA2003427 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:41:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:40:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <416C0DE8.3000004@struchtrup.com> <416DB213.3020708@struchtrup.com> <20041014095355.GA61134@elendil.ru> In-Reply-To: <20041014095355.GA61134@elendil.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart11322262.V18GU5zkoW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410141240.40796.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: Sergei Kolobov Subject: Re: alternative options for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:40:54 -0000 --nextPart11322262.V18GU5zkoW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 14 October 2004 11:53, Sergei Kolobov wrote: > AFAIK, OpenBSD has a feature called "port flavours" (if I'm not mistaken). > I confess I haven't look into it in detail (yet) but it looks like > it does exactly what you describe. That is, the port Makefile specifies > something like: > > FLAVOURS=3D gtk kde athena > > which produces the corresponding vim-gtk, vim-kde, and vim-athena packages > from a *signle* port, without a need to create a multitude of slave ports. =46LAVORS is more or less a standardized way of WITH/WITHOUT switches (i.e.= ,=20 kinda like OPTIONS). The packaging stuff comes from=20 MULTI_PACKAGES/SUBPACKAGE, but those aren't exactly magic either. > Is there anybody working to bring this feature in our bsd.port.mk? I really don't think we want this. It doesn't achieve anything except savin= g a=20 few directories in cvs and on people's harddisks - the port Makefiles becom= e=20 just as convuluted and messy as ports in our tree with lots of build option= s=20 and you end up with multiple plist files in one port directory if you do=20 multipackages. Slave ports are the better thing, IMHO - easier to use (just find the right= =20 directory and type make, done - no finding out which flavors/options are=20 available and setting up some config to select them), easier to see for=20 people which port produces what package and less messy port=20 Makefiles/directories.=20 =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart11322262.V18GU5zkoW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBbleoXhc68WspdLARAsLKAKCQj/15NS9RF1cLjHkN7lUoHfRNsgCcDqbM kTnOeKNc0EIXUkoDKgroqOQ= =/jEB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart11322262.V18GU5zkoW--