Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:34:03 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Latest round of bsd.*.mk changes Message-ID: <1075916043.761.7.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20040204084200.GA19129@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1075871381.76993.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200402041012.01057.andy@athame.co.uk> <1075883393.76993.63.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040204084200.GA19129@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--=-o8JO/g4/Jx7JpqKQG0RQ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:42, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:29:54AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > Perhaps we need something like USE_GETTEXT_BUILD similar to > > USE_PERL5_BUILD. Whatever is the choice, please submit a PR so we can > > track this. Thanks. >=20 > Is that really necessary? i.e. does it buy a significant improvement > over using the explicit BUILD_DEPENDS in the relative few ports that > use it? No, after a good night's rest, it's probably superfluous since a executable dependency isn't likely to change anytime soon. >=20 > I'm becoming concerned at the proliferation of variables being added > to b.p.m - the trend towards macro'izing every conceivable shell > command used by ports is another one I'm uncomfortable with (why?). There are a few reasons I feel this is a good thing. 1. Consistency. All Makefiles use base system commands in the same way. 2. Replace-ability. It is trivial to fix ports if executables change location. 3. Security. By having macros that point to fully-qualified paths, we eliminate the chance or trojan horses in people's paths. Joe >=20 > Kris --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-o8JO/g4/Jx7JpqKQG0RQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAIS0Lb2iPiv4Uz4cRAsvdAJ91KDznYtXYq5WYq3SxIBOfE3+UaACfcYZ4 G0mF0G9YTWmL5TXXesg+MB0= =EaQd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-o8JO/g4/Jx7JpqKQG0RQ--
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