Option vs. flavor?

[Franco Fichtner]

Why not use a separate data package as optional dependency? Solves the conditional fetch.

> On 16. Dec 2017, at 22:02, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/16/17 12:42, Ben Woods wrote:
>> Is there any reason why you want to avoid the download with the port “make
>> fetch”?
> 
> To not clog the package builder with huge unnecessary data? Or maybe this shouldn't be a concern.
> 
>> This should not impact you if it uses subpackages and you just install the
>> program with pkg.
> 
> 
> But are subpackages already available?
> 
> 
> Yuri
> 
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