On Thu, 27 May 2010, Marco Peereboom wrote:

> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:32:27PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2010/05/27 14:04, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > > Why is this not a flavor?
> > 
> > Flavors are for when some files are built in different ways
> > depending on build options (example: some software which links
> > with several types of database driver, but you have to choose
> > which one at build time).
> > 
> > This is done as a subpackage which means the port is built
> > once, and then split at packaging time, which saves time in bulk
> > builds (no need to rebuild the exact same stuff a bunch of different
> > times). Normally this is done for e.g. dlopen()d modules.
> > 
> > In this case the dictionaries aren't used at all at build time,
> > they are copied in the fake-install stage after the main build of
> > Vim has finished. So there is no need for them to be in the same
> > port at all. It would make sense to move these to a separate port
> > e.g. ports/editors/vim-spell
> 
> Well that is really what I meant, just got the lingo wrong.
> 
> Can this be fixed please?

This can easily be done using a PSEUDO_FLAVOR, I see no reason it 
should be moved to another directory.


-- 
Antoine

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