Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 06:21:24 +0000 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Bringing SUB-PACKAGES to ports Message-ID: <CAOc73CCjofO4NpMBkChywOWn-g65wJcsJ7xUGshqf2FB=vCBpA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi everyone, Thank you very much for flavors. It has been long awaited, and will be a great step forward for FreeBSD. Onwards and upwards: What is the status of subpackages? Speaking to bapt at BSDTW, it sounded like flavors was going to be the difficult change, and subpackages would then be easy. Given that we are going through the transition to flavors now, and the ports tools are getting updated to support it, would it be a good idea to introduce subpackages now also? That way people who are getting familiar with the changes required to the ports tools can use their new familiarity whilst it is fresh to support both. For those that aren=E2=80=99t familiar: - Flavors: build a port multiple times with different options/dependencies to create multiple packages - Subpackages: build a port once and chop the resulting files into multiple subpackages https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/FlavorsAndSubPackages Regards, Ben --=20 -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com
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