On Tue, Feb 20, 2024, at 3:24 PM, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:
> Hi Dan.
> 
> The list of subpackages is available via `make -V SUBPACKAGES`
> Probably, the dependencies should also be split by subpackages, when this is 
> the case. `make -V *_DEPENDS.subpkgname` provides the dependencies
> 
> I can write directly in the github issue some of those things, for reference
> 
> Best regards,
> pizzamig

Thank you.

>From what I can tell, this won't break anything on FreshPorts - rather, 
>subpackages seem to be additional information. It also seems like FreshPorts 
>could be easily amended to include that information. i.e. what subpackages 
>exist for this port? What DEPENDS exist for each subpackage? Anything which 
>can be extracted by `make -V` is easy for FreshPorts.

The parsing of packagesite.yaml by FreshPorts would not be affected - the 
subpackages will still point back to the origin (e.g. foo/bar): the subpacakges 
will just magically appear on the right FreshPorts page.

Cheers

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  Dan Langille
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