HEADSUP: FLAVORS (initial version) and subpackages proposals

Franco Fichtner franco at lastsummer.de
Fri Dec 23 09:45:59 UTC 2016


> On 23 Dec 2016, at 10:34 AM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> 
> But we don't have that now. For example dns/py-dnspython can create py27-dnspython, py33-dnspython, py34-dnspython, py35-dnspython - four different packages from one origin, one Makefile.

Noticed that too.  This could be easily solved with slave ports that set
this for e.g. py27-dnspython:

USES= python:2.7

and in the master port

USES?= python
USES+= other-uses-stuff

In fact, py-dnspython master port already does it this way.  But most
Python ports do not.


Cheers,
Franco


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