On 2021-06-15, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote:
> I think that his approach is doomed to fail.
>
> There are a lot of tricky parts to flavors and multipackages and 
> normalization.  If you don't use the actual ports/packages framework code,
> you have to figure it out all over again by yourself.
>
> and there are lots of gremlins.
>
> The official code is based off sqlports.
>
> See how many commits there were to that code... especially the tree-walker
> part and normalization part... that will give you an idea of everything
> that must be gotten precisely right to yield good results.
>
> (and btw, I initially wrote bogus code. I had a large debugging session
> with Robert Nagy until I got the normalization part correct!)
>
>

ports.su is based off sqlports too, but olllld.


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