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From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Splitting devel/subversion into SEVERAL ports -- how
 fine-grained do we want to see it?
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 00:16:18 +0400 Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Ports.
> 
>  I've learned proper way to split subversion into several ports. Question
> is: how fine-grained should I do this? I want to split it at least  into:
> 
> (1) devel/subversion-libs    -- base libs, used by all other ports. Options
>                                 about SERF, BDB and SASL goes here.
> (2) devel/subversion-client  -- all base tools, like "svn", "svnversion" and
>                                 so on, but not "svnserve".
> (3) devel/subversion-server  -- svnserve binary.
> (4) devel/subversion-tools   -- additional tools (option now).
> (5) devel/subversion-apache  -- all mod_dav_svn-related stuff.
> (6) devel/subversion-gnome   -- GNOME KEyRing integration (option now).
> (7) devel/subversion-kde     -- KDE KWallet integration (option now).
> (8) devel/subversion         -- meta-port with options (and real stuff, like
>                                 patches and all infrastructure).
> 
> But it is possible to extract more options to separate ports: BDB repository
> format, remote access with "svn:" scheme and SERF support ("http:" scheme
> remote access) could be separate ports (and packages), not options! But
> maybe, it is "too much" already?

I don't want to stop you from doing this, but if I were you I'd just
wait for subpackages support.  You may want to merge all those ports
back into one port then.