[Bug 222417] [NEW PORT]: mail/dovecot-mysql: Dovecot with MySQL plugin

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222417

Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Neel Chauhan from comment #2)

Thanks for the explanation, Neel.

I certainly understand that having a package produced with your particular
needs would be much more convenient for your workflow.

There's no written policy, but precedent has generally established that a
dependent port with specific options is appropriate only when a substantial
proportion of end-users will want that exact configuration. In this case, I
don't believe that we've met that bar.

Flavours support is in the works for the ports tree. That will allow simple
creation of multiple packages based upon specific OPTIONS configurations. Once
that lands, I'll absolutely make a mysql flavour (and another for pgsql).

In the meantime I would suggest using poudriere to produce any custom packages
that you want. It's very easy to layer a few poudriere-generated packages on
top of the upstream FreeBSD pkg repo.

I'm going to keep this PR open.

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