Re: Dependency hell, again (was Re: dasher)

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:22:21PM +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
>> This is binary-friendly because repositories will have two different
>> packages that users will be able to choose from.  With package
>> options, it's not possible.
>
>
> Shouldn't that problem be tackled centrally (in the way binary packages are
> built, compare OpenBSD "flavours" of binary packages), rather than in each
> individual package?  Maintaining multiple pkgsrc packages for the same
> distfile (even if they share Makefile.common and distinfo bits) is a lot of
> overhead.


Is this where you could, for example, define PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS.1,
PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS.2, PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS.n to use different sets
of options for the desired binary package setups?