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Date:      Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:12:24 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Parv <parv@pair.com>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel Makefile pkg-plist ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel/files patch-configure
Message-ID:  <20050915131224.GB94650@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050914222511.GA11455@holestein.holy.cow>
References:  <200509132211.j8DMBYpj090708@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050914022354.GA7740@holestein.holy.cow> <20050914061957.GA13354@FreeBSD.org> <20050914222511.GA11455@holestein.holy.cow>

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 06:25:11PM -0400, Parv wrote:
> in message <20050914061957.GA13354@FreeBSD.org>,
> wrote Alexey Dokuchaev thusly...
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:23:54PM -0400, Parv wrote:
> > > in message <200509132211.j8DMBYpj090708@repoman.freebsd.org>,
> > > wrote Alexey Dokuchaev thusly...
> > > >
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   - Convert to OPTIONS
> > > 
> > > Ah dang.
> > 
> > Once again, could you please explain what you do not like about OPTIONS?
> > If you need to reconfigure the port at some point, there's "make config"
> > for this purpose.
> 
> I was just expressing my general disappointment as in "another one
> bites the dust".   The issue of OPTIONS-fying has been covered in
> past definitely by others, and i might have chimed in too.

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).

> 
> 
> > > >   - Add WITH_RPLAY knob, kill WITHOUT_XINERAMA since it was of
> > > >   little use
> > > 
> > > Whatever.
> > 
> > As I said earlier, it does not hurt to have it: there's no extra
> > dependency, and this simplifies things for people.
> > me with example when using this option is the onl
> 
> I am sorry, that was bad edit on my part, i should have removed
> "WITH_RPLAY" reference when i replied.
> 
> Again, I was expressing my disappointment about the removal of
> WITHOUT_XINERAMA (why/how was already covered either in some PR of
> one of the ports lists).

This is plain silly, shall you excuse me.  Before we can discuss it, I
want to hear about some real overhead/troubles you have with it enabled
by default.

./danfe



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