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Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:12:44 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
To:        "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: WITHOUT_TELNET=yes .. does it work?
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On 2009-Nov-18 14:07:32 +0000, "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> =
wrote:
>On 18 Nov 2009, at 14:01, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>> tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
>>=20
>> Poor placement IMHO, we shouldn't have dependencies from src into tools.
>
>Its obscure location explains why it doesn't work. :-) Maybe it
>should be src/OptionalFiles.inc? That said, it still sounds like a
>significant maintenance problem to me: we have a lot of WITHOUT_
>options, and they may have non-trivial interactions...

I suggest closer to a maintenance nightmare - expecting developers to
track files that might be installed with different combinations of
something like 35 build options is unrealistic.  Such a file is only
practical if the contents can be build mostly automatically.

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Peter Jeremy

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