[80313] trunk/dports/devel/liblzma/Portfile

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Jul 27 01:43:48 PDT 2011


On 2011-7-27 18:27 , Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>> But at least that way it would behave like every other port, until the subpackage feature is available ?
>>
>> My understanding is that subpackages are available now in MacPorts 2.0.0, if that will help things.
> 
> As far as I know, the subport feature would allow you to declare several ports in one Portfile. But each port would still have both deployment and development files in the same package, so no split like *-dev .deb or *-devel .rpm ?

Yeah, we don't actually have subpackages (owing to not really having
packages). You can kind of simulate it with subports but it's not very
efficient because each subport has to be built individually.

- Josh


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