How are ports built now

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> --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

I can't say how it will work, just pointing out that until variant 
packages are available, ports with default options that aren't as 
desired still have to be built locally.