git: 620f205539a4 - main - editors/vim: Flavorize and update to 8.2.3394

[Michael Gmelin]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 17:46:35 +0200
Michael Gmelin <grembo at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 15:22:53 +0000
> Colin Percival <cperciva at tarsnap.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 9/1/21 11:46 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote:  
> > > URL:
> > > https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=620f205539a43fd8da97750d33eebdfc1e133330
> > > 
> > > commit 620f205539a43fd8da97750d33eebdfc1e133330
> > > Author:     Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org>
> > > AuthorDate: 2021-09-02 06:36:47 +0000
> > > Commit:     Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org>
> > > CommitDate: 2021-09-02 06:36:47 +0000
> > > 
> > >     editors/vim: Flavorize and update to 8.2.3394
> > >     
> > >     This commit completely rewires the vim ports. It includes the
> > > following:    
> > 
> > `make index` is now failing with
> > /usr/ports/audio/fluida-lv2: no entry for
> > /usr/ports/editors/vim-console
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this is because INDEX doesn't understand flavours or
> > if you need to adjust port(s) which depend on vim-console.
> >   
> 
> The problem with using flavors like this is that it basically turns
> those ports into leaf ports (as you, e.g., can't install a port that
> relies on vim-tiny and install vim-gtk3 at the same time).
> 
> We have the same situation with git-lite, git, git-svn, git-cvs...
> That's why, e.g., iocage depends on git and not on git-lite (which
> would be sufficient), as every time you install normal git, iocage
> would get removed from the system.
> 
> Subpackages would solve this (but they're not here yet).
> 
> One can emulate subpackages by creating subports using MASTERDIR. I
> did this for git a while ago (review pending due to lack of
> resources):
> 
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30238
> 

To be fair, before we had conflicting ports, which wasn't better.

@cperciva fixing the problem you actually asked about is probably as
simple as changing

  /usr/ports/editors/vim-console

to

  /usr/ports/editors/vim at console

in the affected ports.

-m

-- 
Michael Gmelin