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Date:      Thu, 26 Dec 2013 08:51:14 +0200
From:      clutton <clutton@zoho.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WITHOUT_NLS is deprecated use NLS option instead
Message-ID:  <1388040674.3771.27.camel@eva02.mbsd>
In-Reply-To: <52BBC4F3.2050508@dougbarton.us>
References:  <52BBC4F3.2050508@dougbarton.us>

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On Wed, 2013-12-25 at 21:56 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Tonight I'm seeing this during ports builds:
>=20
> /!\ WARNING /!\
> WITHOUT_NLS is deprecated use NLS option instead
>=20
> This is silly.
>=20
> I traced the message to bsd.sanity.mk, which has similar silliness for=
=20
> many other longstanding make.conf options. If y'all are clever enough to=
=20
> create silly warning messages deprecating options that have been in use=
=20
> longer than most of you have been part of the project, you're also=20
> clever enough to make compatibility shims to cause WITHOUT_FOO to do=20
> whatever the equivalent behavior is for whatever the options framework=
=20
> looks like this week.
>=20
> Please fix this.
>=20
> Thanks,
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> Doug

=C2=ABThe longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was
good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.=C2=BB

Sorry, but I have a quite opposite view. Making both variants work means
chaos. More variants means more complication.





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