building ports with "MULTI_PACKAGES"

[Bryan]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Josh Grosse <josh at jggimi.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:06:49 -0700, Bryan asked:
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>  > Is there any way to not build OO.org's kde and java packages???
>
>  Nope.
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>  This is how MULT_PACKAGES works.  It builds *all* of the subpackages.
>
>  Now I will qualify my "Nope."  You could manually modify the port yourself.
>  But that is not something I would recommend to anyone posting to
>  openbsd-newbies for any port.  When it comes to *this* monster ... it is not
>  something I would recommend to anyone.
>

Here's a question, why do we need the kde and java ports built?
shouldn't they be a "flavor" too?  LIke "no_x11" or "gnome" flavors of
software???

>  Bryan began his question by stating:
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>  > I am building OpenOffice from ports (I'm a sadist).
>
>  The correct term you are thinking of is "masochist."
>
damn...  should have looked that up...  me == dumbass