packaging system (was: Re: GCC 3.3.2 kernel)

[Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai]

-On [20031031 13:22], ibotty (me at xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>> how easy would it be to make two or three seperate plists?  One for the
>> libraries/binaries/run-time, one for the documentation, and one for the
>> header files and other development stuff.
>> That way you could, through your application, specify what you want to
>> install.  Personally, having just thought of this idea, I see this as a
>> better solution, since you don't need to create 2/3 different
>> ports/packages, but rather the standard which instead of 1 package
>> listing now has three to allow finer grained control.
>
>this is exactly what debian (and some rpm-distributions) do.
>they just split the (one) package into three.

You misread what I wrote.  Let me clarify:

What I was aiming at was something like;

make BIN=yes DOC=yes DEVEL=no all install clean (in ports speak)

Or for a package:

pkg_install -o bin,doc portname

which will install both the binaries and documentation, but not the
header/development files.

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