alternative options for ports

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

On Sat, 16.10.2004 at 13:10:31 -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> Indeed.  Please end this silly discussion.  Packages should be
> taken into account wherever possible, and slave ports satisfy the
> need pretty well.  They may not work for everything, however.  :(
> 
> Unfortunately, adding code for FLAVORS and friend is extremely
> nontrivial.  I looked into that a few times, and we would need to
> more or less rewrite the whole functionality... and doing so in
> make-ese is difficult, to say the least.

Could you please elaborate some more? Which are the key difficulties you
see?

I can think of the following problems:
- INDEX
- sysinstall
- Mixing port upgrades from packages and source (Where does one specify
the flavour? How can a "port upgrade" know which "package flavour" it
should upgrade?)

Ulrich Spoerlein
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Ok, which part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
didn't you understand?
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