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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/c2ps Makefile
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Wow.  I've been away for only a day and the list is exploding!

 * Nope.  Only one port, only port package.  Either add it to FreeBSD's
 * install (about the point they pick their timezone, since we could guess
 * from that).  Or an interactive question during `make install' / pkg_add
 * that asks if the cookie isn't present.

Guys, we've gone through this before.  The answer is "yes, ports ARE
sucky enough not to be able to check these". ;)  And if we do make the
modification, the chance if it being accepted by the original author
is extremely small, meaning we have to keep re-patching it every time
there is an upgrade.

Besides, if we can't do it for all ports, it's going to confuse the
users even more.  IMO we should stick with PAPERSIZE, which works for
everything now.

 * > And how about naming conventions?
 * 
 *     ${PREFIX}/etc/papersize-{a4,letter,legal}
 * 
 * or if we get sysintall suport
 *     /etc/papersize-{a4,letter,legal}

Under ${PREFIX} is out of question, we have at least two (/usr/local
and /usr/X11R6) already and god knows where the user may move the
port.  And putting another file in /etc will ruffle some feathers
(although not mine :).

 * Or maybe we hack the ports to do the right thing for timezones known to
 * be in USA.  That would probably solve most of our problems.

I wish this blasted country would just go to the metric system. ;)

Satoshi

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