Trivial +server variants considered harmful

Eric Hall opendarwin.org at darkart.com
Mon Oct 27 12:29:48 PDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:11:19AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
[snip]
> 
> There are those who complain when ports cannot be installed by non- 
> root and then we end up adding +no_startupitem variants, like the  
> apache2 port has. Comments on this?
> 

	I think splitting a port into 'plain' (aka client bits only)
and a -server port is the right answer to the problem.  



		-eric




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