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Re: Transmission* -> transmission*



On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:45:52AM -0400, diro%nixsyspaus.org@localhost wrote:
> Why was this done? It's not like the -qt and -gtk packages need different
> distfiles. It seems this could have been continued like we are doing with
> yabause:  using the options framework and options groups to force only one of
> the GUI options.

They have wildly different dependencies, so usually you want one or
the other. Having separate packages is better because the bulk builds
will provide both of them instead of only one, or a package with both
which forces you to install unwanted packages.

Cheers,
 Thomas


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