building ports with "MULTI_PACKAGES"

[Josh Grosse]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:26:35 -0700, Bryan wrote

> 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???

Sometimes the line between flavor and subpackage is unclear.  In this
particular case, the CVS log describes the subpackaging, which happened in
November, 2006:

- enable KDE integration and add openoffice-kde subpackge for this
optional feature
- enable building with java and add openoffice-java subpackage for this
optional feature. this corrects the "save as" problem and provides help
files in the base package. so now java is needed to build OOo but not to
run it. some OOo features require java to run, so install the
openoffice-java subpackage for that.

Ref: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/editors/openoffice/Makefile