On 2010/05/27 23:08, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:32:27PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > On 2010/05/27 14:04, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > > > Why is this not a flavor? > > > > > > Flavors are for when some files are built in different ways > > > depending on build options (example: some software which links > > > with several types of database driver, but you have to choose > > > which one at build time). > > > > > > This is done as a subpackage which means the port is built > > > once, and then split at packaging time, which saves time in bulk > > > builds (no need to rebuild the exact same stuff a bunch of different > > > times). Normally this is done for e.g. dlopen()d modules. > > > > > > In this case the dictionaries aren't used at all at build time, > > > they are copied in the fake-install stage after the main build of > > > Vim has finished. So there is no need for them to be in the same > > > port at all. It would make sense to move these to a separate port > > > e.g. ports/editors/vim-spell > > > > Well that is really what I meant, just got the lingo wrong. > > > > Can this be fixed please? > > This can easily be done using a PSEUDO_FLAVOR, I see no reason it > should be moved to another directory.
I was taking the lead from some of the other ports (mozilla, openoffice) where the dictionaries are split off - imho it makes more sense here than it does for the huge things that relatively few people will build themselves..
