Port flavors - What problem does that fix?

Well I like to build from ports and tweaking them with just the right options set.
Are the buildoptions being removed from ports, or are flavors added to the ports as an extra layer?
 
At the ports side those changes affect primary the maintainers, specially those who maintain python stuff. FLAVORS make the things a lot simpler.
 
My suspicion is FLAVORs will mean little to 90% of the FreeBSD users. Most will modify the combination of port options because of our needs, and there will not be a prebuilt flavoured packaged for that. So Portmaster, Synth, and Poudrier users will continue doing what they normally do. If it helps the developers/maintainers then great, all the power to them.
 
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