> maybe, but this isn't how sets could be used today with our system. > there are issues that are like having different, incompatble, build > options for packages. some people can't or don't want to use them. > eg, do you want to force all pkg users to have no options? i think > all the people who want mplayer but don't want arts might get a bit > upset with that idea...
In the ideal world, everything is modular (== binary packages, plug-ins). Imagine if you can do: pkg_add mplayer pkg_add mplayer-plugin-arts Do you still need build-time options? The difference between pkgsrc & base is that we don't have control of sources in pkgsrc, which is the reason why we have build options. In base (kernel + userland), we have control & fix code, and can make everything modular. > i think smarter sets tag handling would be great. > > we could remove a *lot* of duplicated X11 lines.. for instance. What is your problem specifically? > this has nothing to do with modular world. Modualr == binary package. Same thing. Masao
