On Jan 6, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> We've already had a lengthy discussion about subports, variants, or 
>> everything in one port. subports would be a fine way to go, if it was 
>> desired to have separately installable ports. It sounded like Mark didn't 
>> think that would be of advantage, and because of #16373 it would be of 
>> disadvantage because the source, which is around 370MB, would have to be 
>> checked out from the project's repository twice.
> 
> 
> ... which could be worked around by just making a tarball of the source that 
> should be built (which is preferred over fetching the source via 
> cvs/svn/git/whatever anyway) 
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I don't follow you; are you saying to tarball after fetching from svn? What do 
you do with it then?


Mark




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