Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:14:29 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devel/pcre and WITH_UTF8 Message-ID: <421A3315.2070607@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050221181645.GH9175@voodoo.oberon.net> References: <20050221142951.GA48781@pc5-179.lri.fr> <20050221153615.GE9175@voodoo.oberon.net> <20050221155832.GJ51280@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <200502211744.52024.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20050221181645.GH9175@voodoo.oberon.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig71492848F2F281581AB47DC2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 05:44:47PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > >>>Yes, you're right, since there are exponentially many combinations of >>>options, creating slave ports is not the right way. >>>We probably need a mechanism [...] >> >>Don't overengineer. Slave ports pretty much *are* the right way to deal with >>this sort of situation - which is that *some* option is too controverse to be >>either default off or default on. This does not at all imply that you need to >>translate *every* option there is (or could be imagined) into a slave port. > > > It depends on what you want to do. I could split net/gnunet into: > gnunet-gdbm, gnunet-mysql, gnunet-tdb, gnunet-bdb3, gnunet-sqlite, > gnunet-ipv6, gnunet-guile, hence we get 7 slave ports and one master > port. I bet there are people who would think it would be useful to > split it into parts, but since all these years I still object to do > it. > > Well, finding another stylish solution instead of slave ports, would > be very desirable. I guess it could be easy to patch OPTIONS to support this. We could add a @comment line in the packing list, telling which support has been enabled at compile time. That would be easy, but only OPTIONS'ized ports could benefit of such a patch (and ports that manually add this @comment line). -- Florent Thoumie flz@xbsd.org --------------enig71492848F2F281581AB47DC2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCGjMaMxEkbVFH3PQRAlN8AJ0Qh+FnxnL+gfO+jo9KeFXPSRSkvwCfaUom TxClGD6+lBueEaY1QeCw/k0= =4fHm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig71492848F2F281581AB47DC2--
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