From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 14:46:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457D716A41F; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:46:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CE043D46; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:46:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8FEkZja065181; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:46:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j8FEkYfX065180; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:46:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:46:34 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alexey Dokuchaev Message-ID: <20050915144634.GA65015@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200509132211.j8DMBYpj090708@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050914022354.GA7740@holestein.holy.cow> <20050914061957.GA13354@FreeBSD.org> <20050914222511.GA11455@holestein.holy.cow> <20050915131224.GB94650@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050915131224.GB94650@FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Parv Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel Makefile pkg-plist ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel/files patch-configure X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:46:36 -0000 On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:12:24PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > IMHO, sticking to an old-world order, you're locking yourself of out > many advantages that OPTIONS bring to you. There're about a dozen of > options, and more will appear (I'm about to pull some nifty Gentoo > patches to fvwm2-devel in some near future). Without OPTIONS, our users > would have to read the Makefile (well, that could be avoided by priting > them in pre-everything:: target), but they would still need to manually > define all those knobs on command line (or in pkgtools.conf). Or stick them in /etc/make.conf and still have them available for every build. I'm more than able to use 'vi' and edit /etc/make.conf. And I don't get surprises later when I start some 'make install' of a package with dependencies and walk away - only to find it stopped wanting to know if I want to select some mostly useless options. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)