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:
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>
> 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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