Option vs. flavor?
Thierry Thomas
thierry at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 16 14:28:58 UTC 2017
Le sam. 16 déc. 17 à 2:38:51 +0100, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com>
écrivait :
> One port is small by itself, but it semi-optionally requires 4.5GB of
> static data installed.
>
> It is possible to download this data optionally, conditional on the port
> option DATA_FILES which will be "off" by default, so that the users who
> need the data will install it with DATA_FILES=on.
>
> Alternatively, it is possible to create a flavor, something like @withData.
>
>
> Should the option be preferred, or should the flavor be preferred?
I'd say that this is a case for sub-packages.
--
Th. Thomas.
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