Trivial +server variants considered harmful

[William Siegrist]

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.
>

Agreed. And if the server functionality is expensive to build, I  
prefer the postgresql model of having *-server ports that can be built  
separately when possible.


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