Trivial +server variants considered harmful

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

I would have to concur.   More broadly speaking, I would say that  
variants should continue to serve as very coarse-grained knobs, not  
fine-grained ones, and mysql5 acting like a server would be more of an  
expectation than a knob in any case so these are wrong on two  
counts. :-)

- Jordan

On Oct 26, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Joshua Root wrote:

> There seem to be some ports (e.g. ntop, mysql5) with a +server variant
> that does nothing but create a startupitem. It seems to me that it  
> would
> be much better to remove the variant and just always create the
> startupitem, since the cost of creating a startupitem is negligible,
> while the cost of having to recompile the port if you forget to  
> specify
> +server is considerable.
>
> - Josh
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