subports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 3, 2012, at 23:18, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> I tried the portfile I posted earlier (using a subport). It works, but unless I'm doing something wrong, you have to fetch the source twice to install both. Any way around that?
>> 
>> Please look at the portfile and let me know if it's ready for submission.
> 
> You can set the distdir to be the same, rather than being the name of each port. Simply pick one and set it in the other to match.

The default dist_subdir is ${name} so it should already work correctly; all subports should share the same dist_subdir. Why do you think they don't?