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On 06/26/12 09:58, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 26/06/2012 08:26, Marcus von Appen wrote:
>>>> 1. Ports are not modular
>
>>> What do you mean by modular? if you are speaking about subpackages it
>>> is coming,
>>> but it takes time
>
>> I hope, we are not talking about some Debian-like approach here (foo-bin,
>> foo-dev, foo-doc, ....).
>
> Actually, yes -- that's pretty much exactly what we're talking about
> here.  Why do you feel subpackages would be a bad thing?

Can I share my 2c?

Because it will just multiply be three the number of ports each of us 
has to install/maintain/upgrade/etc...

  bye
	av.