Re: reminder: guidelines for multi-packages and flavors

2012-01-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:22:29PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: But grouping independent builds in a single port because it seems logical is a mistake! This also goes for documentation and such: if the documentation is provided as an independent distfile, if you build a separate package for the

reminder: guidelines for multi-packages and flavors

2012-01-16 Thread Marc Espie
Remember that flavors and multi-packages should not be used to group together independent stuff. I did that mistake in the past, for instance in kde/i18n3 (with flavors) and others did similar things with multi-packages for www/firefox-i18n Basically, those kill dpb. dpb considers a set of