Re: devel/git and devel/git-base are confusing

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

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On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 22:53:45 +0200, oskar%fessel.org@localhost wrote:
>> NetBSD/pkgsrc communities are conservative in terms of installing minimal
>> things. (Or so I believe.)
> 
> Yeah, maybe.  I just use the *-base packages to install base functionality.
> As of today, we have 36 such packages including wip.

This. (And thanks for counting.)

I.e. where foo comes with fluff, foo-base will install the basics, and 
foo will include the fluff.

Why git ought to be different has not really been motivated in this 
thread, AFAICS.

Cheerio,
hauke

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