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[Jan Stary]

On Sep 27 09:53:02, allbery.b at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

I must be missing your point. What's a "linux-like" package system
as opposed to a "build-from-port" system? Every package built from a port.
How does using options/variants of a port make the resulting package
less usefull (then having a lot of separate packages).