Re: Subpackage explanations

On 24/01/2024 10:28, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:
> Hi porters!
> 
> At the beginning of January, we merged the support to subpackages in the 
> framework.
> Subpackage is the feature to create multiple packages from one build of 
> one port. In other words, now it's possible to group files into multiple 
> packages. This means that from one port it's possible to split the build 
> into several packages.
> Some additional details are available in this lighting talk at EuroBSD 
> 2023 (https://youtu.be/e-FUYbGNdBg?t=824 
> <https://youtu.be/e-FUYbGNdBg?t=824>).
> 
> *Use cases we want to tackle*
> The first use case we want to get rid of is master/slave ports when 
> slave ports could be built with the master port.
> An example (already merged) is https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43445 
> <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43445>: devel/appstream will create also 
> the -compose and -qt6 binaries as subpackage in one build.

I'm glad to see this feature. It seems ideal for ports like MySQL / 
MariaDB / PostgreSQL where the -client or -contrib port is just a slave 
Makefile of -server and if you need to install server, you need client 
installed too.

Thank you for the work on it.

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman