devel/pcre and WITH_UTF8

[Kirill Ponomarew]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 05:44:47PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > Yes, you're right, since there are exponentially many combinations of
> > options, creating slave ports is not the right way.
> > We probably need a mechanism [...]
> 
> Don't overengineer. Slave ports pretty much *are* the right way to deal with 
> this sort of situation - which is that *some* option is too controverse to be 
> either default off or default on. This does not at all imply that you need to 
> translate *every* option there is (or could be imagined) into a slave port.

It depends on what you want to do.  I could split net/gnunet into:
gnunet-gdbm, gnunet-mysql, gnunet-tdb, gnunet-bdb3, gnunet-sqlite,
gnunet-ipv6, gnunet-guile, hence we get 7 slave ports and one master
port.  I bet there are people who would think it would be useful to
split it into parts, but since all these years I still object to do
it.

Well, finding another stylish solution instead of slave ports, would
be very desirable.

-Kirill