Splitting devel/subversion into SEVERAL ports -- how fine-grained do we want to see it?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 02:41:21PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 16:27:15 +0400 Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> > Hello, Tijl.
> > You wrote 8 июня 2014 г., 14:16:14:
> > 
> > TC> I don't want to stop you from doing this, but if I were you I'd just
> > TC> wait for subpackages support.  You may want to merge all those ports
> > TC> back into one port then.
> >   It is second way. But I didn't seen any estimations about subpackages
> > support, and "separate mod_dav_svn" is request which I got twice a month.
> 
> Yes, I have some questions about subpackages myself.  For instance, will
> a port be able to depend on the subpackage of another port?  Will the
> infrastructure be smart enough to build just that subpackage then or will
> it build the full package (and all of its dependencies) and then split up
> the stage directory?  If a port has to "smart" then you may want to split
> subversion up now because you'll need all that logic for subpackages too.

yes to all questions :) that is how subpackage will be, concerning the ETA, now
pkg 1.3 has enough support for it, so after EOL of pkg_install I'll push the
support for subpackages.

regards,
Bapt
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