On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 05:18:06PM -0700 I heard the voice of Dan Mahoney (Ports), and lo! it spake thus: > > As mentioned in my prior email, I’ve submitted a patch which allows > to flavor p5-DBD-Pg [...]
My understanding of how flavors work is that they can't actually solve this problem, because the flavor is part of the package name, and package names are dependancies. Which means that flavoring p5-DBD-Pg doesn't actually solve the problem; you need to flavorizate all the things that _use_ p5-DBD-Pg so they depend on the right flavor of p5-DBD-Pg. And all the things that use those things, and all the things that use those things... So, a flavored p5-DBD-Pg would let you install that module to whatever version of Pg you wanted. But it doesn't do you any good with other packages that _depend_ on that module. So flavors quickly become unhelpful on non-leaf ports, except as object lessons in combinatorial explosion. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
