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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:05:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: ports.conf
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010823140555.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010823210729.A95484@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>

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On 23-Aug-01 Alexander Langer wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> Inspired by a comment from JHB on IRC, I removed all ports relevant
> entries from /etc/defaults/make.conf and put them
> into a new ports.conf, along with some new entries (from bsd.gnome.mk).
> 
> This ports.conf should probably maintained somewhere in the ports/ tree
> instead.  It should be included as well, and _COMMON_ options should
> be listed in defaults/ports.conf (e.g. WITHOUT_X11 or WITH_GNOME).
> 
> src/defaults/make.conf shouldn't be spammed with ports stuff.
> 
> A attached the diff and the new file.
> 
> Comments?

Just follow the /etc/defaults way of doing things when you modify bsd.port.mk,
i.e.: allow /etc/ports.conf to override /etc/defaults/ports.conf.  Thanks.

> Alex

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