Re: git: 94eda313a9d5 - main - mail/dovecot: add LDAP as a default option

I've been talking to Gleb Popov re sub packages, and until the USES issue is solved, I'll have issues.

I've asked the Dovecot list about how they do the split packaging on Linux, to no avail yet.

Jan 31, 2024 1:53:11 AM Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>:

> Am 2024-01-31 06:44, schrieb Larry Rosenman:
> 
>> I really want a way to split our packages like the dovecot folks do for Linux,
>> but I don't have that understood yet.
> 
> If the LDAP (and other extensions) can be build without the main stuff of dovecot (a theoretical "configure --only-ldap-extension-but-not-dovecot-itself && make", then a master/slave port combo would be the way to go.
> 
> If it can not not be build without the main part of dovecot, and if it doesn't change anything else in the parts which are build without the LDAP option set, the experimental subpackages support would be the way to go (please see the thread on freebsd-ports@ for the issues/bugs some people (me included) see with the current implementation of subpackages, I have not evaluated if the issues I see would affect dovecot or not).
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
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