Sane way to resolve potential conflicts in the system

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Mon Apr 25 01:59:31 UTC 2016


On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 21:30:28 -0400, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> I'm curious what a system would look like that lets you customize
> compile time settings but doesn't require you to recompile if you want
> to change said compile time settings.

As far as I understand, package "flavors" can do this to some extent.
However, for n options, 2^n packages would be needed (in worst case),
plus a method to derive their correct name. :-)


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