shells/bash-static fails to package/deinstall cleanly
clutton
clutton at zoho.com
Thu Dec 26 11:27:56 UTC 2013
On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 10:51 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 26/12/2013 10:40, clutton wrote:
> > The whole port because of STATIC option?
> > It'll be better to move this thing to bash port and make it as an
> > option. Like zsh maintainer did.
>
> It's already an option in the bash port.
>
> You seem somewhat unclear on the concept of slave ports and why they
> should exist. The point here is so that users of binary packages can
> jut type
>
> pkg install bash-static
>
> and get a statically linked version of bash. This is the principal
> reason that slave ports exist: so that the same software will be built
> with different sets of default options, either for end user convenience
> or because some other port depends on having some specific combination
> of options.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
I know why, I mean I understand the purpose.
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg52457.html
I thought that after OPTIONS framework was introduced all -x11 and
similar ports are legacy. Am I wrong?
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