flavors and subpackages

[Ultima]

Thanks for the update and working on this bapt, it will be a nice feature
to have in the port tree.

On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have started to merge subpackages and flavors to the ports tree.
>
> While for subpackages I'm only committing for now modifications of
> bsd.port.mk
> that needs to be made in preparation for proper subpackages
>
> For flavours, I have a working patch for a first easy step which should
> cover
> for examples all the py2/py3 mess we have now
>
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10327
>
> basically if a port can have multiple variation then it just have to define
> FLAVORS= foo bar
>
> Committing the infrastructure part will not break anything but actually
> using
> it in ports will break portmaster, portupgrade, synth, poudriere and others
> which should be easily fixable on each end
>
> I haven't yet written a patch for poudriere but I plan to do it as soon as
> I
> can. For others I will let their maintainers doing it
>
> In my opinion it should be used with a proper policy from portmgr.
>
> If I take the python as an example:
> we should imho provide flavors for major version of the languages, meaning
> py27
> and py35 right now, but not for all possible version of the languages.
>
> only libs should provide flavors, end user programs should not.
>
> Best regards,
> Bapt
>