On 23/11/2013 13:02, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: > Yeah, Debian's package split is nice (and not only for PHP but > everything else). But I'm not sure if we want to make x packages we have > to make x ports. I mean, it is very useful when distributing packages > and I'm not sure the port system cannot make x packages from 1 only port.
It can't. This sub-package functionality is coming, but it's not here
yet. Conversion to staging is a pre-requisite, and I've a feeling that
old-style pkg_tools aren't going to cut it; pkgng will[*] be required.
Which means it's going to be problematic for older release branches.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] almost certainly.
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