HEADSUP: FLAVORS (initial version) and subpackages proposals

Guido Falsi mad at madpilot.net
Mon Dec 19 19:02:20 UTC 2016


On 12/19/16 19:53, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 12/18/16 19:31, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been working for a while on 2 long standing feature request for the ports
>> tree: flavors and subpackages.
>> [...]
>
> Off topic, I know, but might this eventually lead to FLAVORS for base?
> I would be so grateful to have a SCHED_4BSD flavor of base so I didn't
> have to keep updating my machines from source every time there was a
> security update.  Maybe someone can at least think about it.  -- George

While you wait for the improvement you ask, you can use binary updates 
and just recompile the kernel by hand.

Should spare you some time and effort.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>


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