instead of trying to select the minimum set of defaults in ports and packages it appears that the defaults are being selected in order to increase he number of dependnent packages needed (just in case). this results in completely unuseable packages as the expanded depednency fan-out can be many hundreds of packages (which may not fit on small systems). some guidance needs to be given to get port maintainers to trim defaults, and to produce super-ports that have non-standard options added for those who need them. The framework needs ot be expanded to handle this better. for example of a place where better defaults may have reduced work... these are the packages that are needed to add tracker. (this is not the worst one, just one I have at hand.) 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You're absolutely correct, Julian. The dependency chain of many ports borders on the absurd, stemming largely from the desire for each port to be everything, to everyone. I have the same problem with the vim port, which, because I don't want to DROP support for anything in the default package, vim depends on nearly 200 ports just to build, and dozens to install. It is anticipated that this will be mitigated to a great deal by the upcoming flavours paradigm. This will enable much more reasonable packages to be the default, and making creating "full" editions much easier. I think we can all agree that "start reasonable and work your way UP to ludicrous" is a better target than "start ludicrous just in case." Do you have a better paradigm in mind for the meantime?
The split between ports and packages is causing me some problems. Some fixes for package issues will require changes to ports and yet they are different 'doamains'. We need to decide whether packages and ports are one unified thing or not. the flavours thing sounds fine but where can I find out more about it?
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2016-December/106315.html
drop this.. others are working on the issue with flavours