Hi gang,documentation is little sparse yet (found only mention in the Porters handbook, created PR for "end user" doc) and I am unsure, if we can handle this. Best way I can describe my question is probably via examples, so consider following:
We have multiple PHP versions in ports (php56, php70, php71, php72) which may get flavored in future. Now there is also some simple PHP application, let say php-composer, which would work with any of those PHP runtimes. Can we handle it in some generic way or should one create also multiple flavors for given application?
Another example would be some really simple C program, which can have any C compiler as build time dependency. Here making multiple flavors doesn't have any sense, but author knows that any compiler will suffice. This one is more general, because it is not only about flavors, but may lead to something like from [clang4-5, gcc4-6, intel, whatever we have] take one, but you got the point.
Same can be asked probably for all interpreted/scripting languages like Ruby and Python and many simple scripts in ports which doesn't have other dependencies beside those interpreters. Simple Java applications may also run with all or most available Java ports etc.
-- Regards Ondra
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