Port system "problems"

[Marcus von Appen]

On, Tue Jun 26, 2012, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

[...]

> > >> 2. Option system is not really well documented
> > > What kind of documentation do you need?, please report what you are
> > > expected so
> > > that we can improve it
> > >
> > >> 3. Some dependencies are totally useless
> > > Please report PR
> > >
> > >> 4. So slow...
> > > What is slow do you mean compiling is slow?
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Let me give some examples:
> > >>
> > >> 1. games/wesnoth should be splitted in games/wesnoth-bin and
> > >> games/wesnoth-datas. Why rebuild everything when just binaries needs ?
> > >
> > > This is coming, it takes lot of time, and some things have to be
> > > done first, in
> > > the infrastructure that the user do not see much.
> >
> > I do not see any necessity for infrastructure changes here - we did that
> > in the past for several ports (e.g. alephone, alienarena, ...).
>
> No be able to have sub packages and flavours (aka N packages from one port)
> there are changes needed

Being able to and having the need to do something are two different
things. Do we need this or do we make things more complex by taking
sub-packages into consideration (for both or either one, the ports
Makefile infrastructure and package tool(s))?

Cheers
Marcus

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