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Date:      Sun, 7 May 2006 01:36:47 +0300
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To:        Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net>
Cc:        Freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suggestion regarding config of ports
Message-ID:  <20060507013647.456f68bd@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <445D195E.2010208@pldrouin.net>
References:  <445D195E.2010208@pldrouin.net>

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On Sat, 06 May 2006 17:47:10 -0400
Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I think it would be nice if there was a way for port maintainers to 
> specify if a port needs to be reconfigured. For example, today (May 6, 
> 2006) there has been an update of port lang/php4 and there is a new 
> option to choose if the apache module has to be compiled or not. If 
> there was a flag in the port system that allowed to force configuration 
> of the port if the installed version is less than a certain value, users 
> would have seen immediately that they had to check that new "Apache 
> module" option to have that module reinstalled...

Yes, you're right. See last lines of mail/dspam[-devel]/Makefile for a
possible implementation. I'm working on a more complete solution.


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