"dev" ports (=/= "devel" ports!)

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

----- On 23 Apr, 2017, at 15:54, René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com wrote:

> I'd like to draw some attention to a prototype implementation of a PortGroup I
> wrote for creating "dev" ports, akin to Debian/Ubuntu's "-dev" packages:
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52713

I really really don't think a PortGroup is the right way to do this. This should
be done in base, with proper support of creating multiple packages from a single
build and then optionally installing some of them, more like FreeBSD's ports
does things.

-- 
Clemens Lang