Re: Re: This is going to break port building without poudriere!

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 01:55:11AM -0800, Chris wrote:
> On 2024-01-26 00:41, Gleb Popov wrote:
> > P.S. I made a little writeup on Ports features, which tries to explain
> > what subpackages really are. You might find it useful:
> > http://arrowd.name/ports_writeup
> I really appreciate the write up! Makes for a nice overview. The differential
> at first glance was a bit daunting. Will flavors and all still remain?
> Or will subpackages subsume options/flavors?

Flavors and subpackages are two very different things, and absolutely
not related.

Flavors allow building one port multiple time in different ways.

Subpackages allows splitting one build into more than one package.

As for options, they are not really needed, and need to go away, but it
is for the future.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold