On Mar 3, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
Now, if you're saying that the initial efforts to get there have been clunky and inelegant then I'm not going to dispute that since you're probably right. That doesn't mean you throw the baby out with the bathwater, however, it means you figure out how to do a better job of it by learning from your early mistakes!
Nobody is arguing against universal builds. The goal is to avoid a mountain of impossibly complex, difficult to maintain code in the Ports tree. The fact that universal is a happy land of milk and honey is great, but I don't think any of your points refute jberry's original statement: I'd like to see people refrain from completely bastardizing portfiles in order to support universal builds. Me too. -landonf