I'm quite distressed by the concept of too much work (and too much ugly code) going into building +universal variants of ports. I'd like to see people refrain from completely bastardizing portfiles in order to support universal builds. Let's be reasonable: the case for universal builds is fringe. We don't have easy ways to transport binary ports between systems, and it's not in general a safe thing to do. I'd much rather see: - Smaller, cleaner, more maintainable portfiles and no universal. - Work on binary packages and a build/distribution system that could deliver the pre-built port for a given architecture. Let's not see more ugliness like the universal variant in the OpenSSL port, please! (Feel free to chime in on this issue, all who care...) James