Re: use of DOCS in port options

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM Derek Schrock
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> sub-packages solve this for all cases.  You might still have to build
> them but they get their own package.

Not really, subpackages is a way to get multiple packages from a
single build (read, ${WRKDIR}).
The question is about OPTIONS, which are inputs to the build (the
build recipe actually).
In other words, OPTIONS allows for not building some part of the
software at all, saving the
time on build dependencies, while subpackages allow for more
fine-grained installation of
build products on the end point.