Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:39:18 -0800 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Combining multiple programs in single port Message-ID: <20100216193918.GE19201@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4B7AE3AC.5040908@FreeBSD.org> References: <20100216153323.GA28829@A-Eskwadraat.nl> <4B7AE3AC.5040908@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue 16 Feb 2010 at 10:27:56 PST Doug Barton wrote: >On 2/16/2010 7:33 AM, Jeroen Schot wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I want to provide a port for a set of small utilities[1], all in the same >> scope and from the same upstream, to FreeBSD. Since all are very small >> (around 100 line of C), making seven separate ports seems a bit >> overkill. > >Given that these are distinctly different tools, and seem to have their >own individual sources, different ports would be the way to go. In most cases where a port provides a suite of tools (e.g., my own sysutils/moreutils), you'll find that the upstream author has already bundled them together into a single distfile. Doing that on the port side seems like more trouble than it's worth.
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