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From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/ImageMagick Makefile pkg-descr pkg-p list
To: will@physics.purdue.edu
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:28:55 +0200 (EET)
Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer),
	ache@nagual.pp.ru (Andrey A. Chernov), will@FreeBSD.org,
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In-Reply-To: <20010313182036.M61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> from "Will Andrews" at Mar 13, 2001 06:20:36 PM
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> > A lot of ports  have WITH and WITHOUT options. Honoring  them all with a
> > separate sub-port would  explode the ports tree. Think of  the amount of
> > permutations of mod_php,  ghostscript, or postgresql will  have. Is NO_X
> > -- an exception? May be... I'll do what my mentor tells me to.
> 
> Will's principle:  If it's not your port, it's not your problem.
> 
> I dislike creating new directories just for certain options too, but the
> way bento builds packages severely limits our options.  There was a huge
> discussion about this last September (see: "ports options paper" I
> wrote), and according to Satoshi some years ago as well.

So we have at least several years until next discussion...

-Maxim

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