AW: alternative options for ports

[Jonathan Weiss]

> El Jueves, 14 de Octubre de 2004 13:20, Jose M Rodriguez escribió:
>> El Jueves, 14 de Octubre de 2004 11:53, Sergei Kolobov escribió:
>>> On 2004-10-14 at 00:54 +0200, Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup wrote:
>>>> I thought of a way to specify configurations to build several
> [ ... ]
>>> 
>>> FLAVOURS= gtk kde athena
>>> 
>>> which produces the corresponding vim-gtk, vim-kde, and vim-athena
>>> packages from a *signle* port, without a need to create a multitude
>>> of slave ports.
>>> 
>>> Is there anybody working to bring this feature in our bsd.port.mk?
>>> 
>>> Sergei
>> 
>> It not so esay.  OpenBSD port system is binary oriented (And I think
>> NetBSD pkgsrc also).  Even installing from ports, they make first de
>> package and then install.
>> 
> 
> It must say:
> 
> It's not so easy.  OpenBSD ports system is binary oriented (like rpm and
> NetBSD pkgsrc, I think).  Even installing from ports, they make first a
> package and then install from that.

BTW, I like this approach much more!
Make a package out of the port and then install it, it is much more
meaningful .

Also the 'make package' target in OpenBSD does not install the package as in
FreeBSD, also more meaningful .

Greets,
Jonathan