svn commit: r463374 - head/security/nyx

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 2 08:17:46 UTC 2018


On 3/2/18 6:40 PM, Yuri wrote:
> If the port can only be used as an app, as opposed to library, multiple
> flavors aren't needed. All users care about is an executable. It doesn't
> matter what python version is used.

That's what sane^Wyou and I would think. :-)

On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 06:57:51PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> 2) The 'app vs library' distinction is not sound here. It wasn't sound
> for python package prefixing in the past either.

It was always sound and meaningful, but FreeBSD Python cabal had decided
otherwise (and adopted that stupid "prefix everything with py-" rule which
is counterintuitive and makes looking for programs harder).  But oh well,
we've argued over this years ago Kubilay.

./danfe


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