On Oct 26, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
There seem to be some ports (e.g. ntop, mysql5) with a +server variantthat does nothing but create a startupitem. It seems to me that it wouldbe much better to remove the variant and just always create the startupitem, since the cost of creating a startupitem is negligible,while the cost of having to recompile the port if you forget to specify+server is considerable.
Agreed. And if the server functionality is expensive to build, I prefer the postgresql model of having *-server ports that can be built separately when possible.
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