How are ports built now

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 8, 2014 at 10:32:33 AM -0600 Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> 
wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>> Yes, I do have a few ports with none-default options.  The problem is,
>> they're critical ports (like apache22).
>
> At present, these have to be built from ports.  Long-term, there is a
> plan to have multiple packages for ports with options.
>

It seems like a completely unworkable solution to me.  For example, say you 
have a port with 10 options.  Imagine how many different binaries you would 
have to have to cover every possible combination of selected options.  It 
would take a huge amount of storage

Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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