On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:17:15PM -0500, Mike Erdely wrote: > I'm working on porting bacula. I have some design questions. > > I envision having the following packages when I'm done: > bacula-fd-$V > bacula-gconsole-$V > bacula-wxconsole-$V > bacula-sd-$V > bacula-dir-$V-mysql > bacula-dir-$V-pgsql > bacula-dir-$V-sqlite > > I see having MULTI_PACKAGES=-main -gconsole -wxconsole -sd -dir > I see having FLAVORS=mysql pgsql sqlite > > What I'm unclear about is how to require a flavor for -dir SUBPACKAGE and > to not allow flavors for other SUBPACKAGES. > > I believe you require a flavor (more or less) by FLAVOR?=sqlite (or > something similar). > > Am I on the right track?
Typically we only use FLAVORS when a port has very large dependencies that fundamentally change the final build's binaries. If the various db backends are easily SUBPACKAGEable, ie. each database backend is a shared that gets loaded at runtime and all of the files needed for this support are easily identified and isolated, then I say do away with the extra complexity of FLAVORS alltogether and just go with SUBPACKAGES. -- Mathieu Sauve-Frankel
