On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 03:54:13PM +0200, Peter Schuller wrote:
> I am interested in the motivation behind using multiple mutually
> exclusive packages instead of package options to control certain
> software.

In most cases this is a work around for a number of limitations in the
bulk build and buildlink framework. For example we can't currently build
the same package with different option sets, so binary users would be
left out.

Joerg