> On 12 Apr 2016, at 7:49 pm, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Christopher Jones <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Take if you want, as a real world case, ROOT6, which I know well. It has a >> large number of variants, because upstream’s build system offers all these >> as optional extras. Many of them have dependencies I do not wish to force on >> all users, if they don’t require that feature. >> >> Some of them create additional libraries for the new features, some just add >> the functionality to existing ones. Most will also extend the introspection >> system as part of root. None can be built as afterthoughts. You have to >> configure ROOT from the start with the features you want. So for this port >> there is no chance in hell I am going to implement them as sub-ports. > > It would be nice if upstream could be convinced to 'fix' this.
You’ll need to convince them (and me) first its a bug that needs fixing. I don’t see it that way. Chris
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