On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:17:12AM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > 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... >
Not at all for a maintainer it will be the same has having multiple options, because it will remain 1 port -> N packages Most of the time the ports are already splitted in slave ports (samba, *sql*, ldap etc), having them in a single port will simplify life of lots of maintainers, and simplify the port code regards, Bapt
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