Subpackages
Some ports contain multiple wildly different packages. This isn’t like adding LDAP support to Apache or Motif support to Vim—those are changes to the existing package, not wildly different. Some ports create two completely different packages, such as a database client and the associated database server. I’ve drawn in OpenLDAP through this chapter’s examples, and both the OpenLDAP server and client come from the same port: databases/openldap. Other applications might have plug-ins for accessing several different database engines. These are called subpackages or multipackages.
Unlike flavors, OpenBSD provides all subpackages of a port. You can install both the server and client versions of OpenLDAP from official packages. When the port ...
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