building ports with "MULTI_PACKAGES"

[Bryan]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Josh Grosse <josh at jggimi.homeip.net> wrote:
> 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
>
I didn't know about the "needing java to build OO.org" problem...  Oh
well, guess that's that...

This only affects me when I am trying to do a re-install during the
time that packages aren't available...  ordinarily, I use OO.org
packages...  It saves me about 3 days of work...

Cheers,
Bryan