Cool! I'll start working on "enslaving" other three.

Thanks!
--
Hyun "Harold" Hwang


On Sunday, April 14, 2019, 1:08 PM (UTC-04:00), Adam Weinberger 
<ad...@adamw.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 10:36 AM Hyun Hwang <hyun@caffeinated.codes> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Source Han Sans is a font that supports 4 East Asian languages at the same 
> > time. Thus initially, I have split the font into four when porting; 
> > chinese/sourcehansans-{sc,tc}-otf, {japanese,korean}/sourcehansans-otf, 
> > respectively.
> > These four have all their own Makefile, pkg-plist, distinfo, ..., which now 
> > I think are great redundancy. This is what master and slave ports are for, 
> > right?
> >
> > Question is: can these four have a master-slave relationship across their 
> > respective categories?
> > I have schemed the Porter's Handbook, but it does not mention anything 
> > about redefining essential variables such as CATEGORIES, etc.
> 
> Hi Harold,
> 
> Absolutely! There's essentially no limit to what can be redefined.
> Just use CATEGORIES?= in the master.
> 
> # Adam
> 
> 
> -- 
> Adam Weinberger
> ad...@adamw.org
> https://www.adamw.org
>
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