Port system "problems"

[Marcus von Appen]

On, Tue Jun 26, 2012, Mark Felder wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:50:48 -0500, Marcus von Appen <mva at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I still do not see any reason or argument on why we would need
> > sub-packages.
>
> I want up to date packages for all my servers. My servers all have
> different requirements -- I want Apache with LDAP here, and definitely
> Apache without LDAP there. Designing a package-building and deployment
> system for a non-homogenous server farm is an exercise in futility. Having
> proper sub-packages fixes this issue in a cleanly supportable fashion.

That sound good to me and something I'd vote for, since it does not
split ports on a technical, but functional level into packages.

Cheers
Marcus
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