Re: scope of FreeBSD-utilities

Chris:
> > i'm happy to continue submitting PRs using my best judgement for this,
> > but to avoid wasting anyone's time (including mine!) i thought it might
> > be useful to have a discussion about the preferred way forward here.

> In closing; Not having looked at the Makefile, Is this option-based?
> IOW can the user simply tick off any/all of the individual items included
> in the port?

generally, no, at least as i undersatnd it: the idea of pkgbase is you
choose what you want to be installed by installing or not installing
specific packages, so there should be no need for source-specific
customisation.

that's what prompted my other thread about mailwrapper: the current
behaviour doesn't really fit into the pkgbase philosophy because what is
installed as 'mailwrapper' varies based on source switches.

with FreeBSD-utilities, i would expect this to be installed on most
normal multiuser systems -- it's just larger than it should be right
now.  once it's trimmed down a bit, i can't imagine someone needing a
source knob to decide whether 'bc', for example, is installed in
-utilities.  (if someone needs that level of customisation, like for an
embedded system, they should be building from source anyway.)