Option vs. flavor?

[Ben Woods]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 at 8:29 am, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> On 12/16/17 11:14, Ben Woods wrote:
> > The original post was requesting that the port make fetch only downloads
> > the data conditionally based on the option. Not sure how possible that
> is.
>
>
> Yes, I was in doubt too. sub-packages will probably always fetch and
> build, and I am trying to avoid that.
>
> So I would just stick to flavor. @withData should be a virtual flavor,
> that can be built on demand.
>
> IMO, this makes most sense.
>
>
> Yuri


Hi Yuri,

Is there any reason why you want to avoid the download with the port “make
fetch”?

This should not impact you if it uses subpackages and you just install the
program with pkg.

Regards,
Ben

> --

--
From: Benjamin Woods
woodsb02 at gmail.com