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[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz> wrote:

> Generaly, I find the precompiled defaults quite sensible
> in most of the packaging systems, having subpackages/flavors/variants etc.
> it surprises me that you "always" need to compile the port yourself.
>

Linux-like package systems tend to split things up so you can add
functionality with plug-in ports, at a cost in maintainability of the
package system. Build from source setups (pkgsrc/ports) tend to use build
options/variants instead, and the packages become less useful as a result.

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