On 09/26/2017 17:43, Mel Pilgrim wrote:
On 09/26/2017 16:56, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at 4:39:29 +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
On 27/09/2017 04:22, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
Please read the whole email.
What are FLAVORS and why do I need it?
Is there somewhere that explains the intent and purpose?
Thank you! Just the question I was going to ask.
FLAVORS allows a pkg repo to contain variations of the same port. For
example, a port that has two mutually exclusive options can now exist
in the public repo as both builds (each with their own FLAVOR suffix),
rather than requiring the port maintainer select a default and force
users of the other to compile the port themselves, or do things like
maintain subports.
thanks for the clarification - this sounds like a really useful feature
for my workflow at least. i can actually think of several linux distros
where something like this would have saved me lots of cycles due to
having to maintain my own versions (or flavors i guess) of common packages.
-pete
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Pete Wright
p...@nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA
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