Combining multiple programs in single port

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 19:08:33 UTC 2010


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> 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.

    If these are package together upstream, does a meta-package/-port
make sense?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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