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It occurred to me that Geert Hendrickx wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:55:41PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:50:51PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>> > I imported two new packages into pkgsrc-wip: mydns-mysql and mydns-pgsql.
>> > They're the same program, but, obviously, one uses MySQL and the other
>> > Postgres.  From the DESCR: 
>> 
>> Why two packages and not a single package with two options?
>
> Because this way we have a binary package for each.  

But, according to this logic, we shouldn't have package options to begin
with.