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From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [BRAINSTORMIG] name of the variable for passing command line
 options via make
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On 25 Sep 2012 12:42, "Pietro Cerutti" <gahr@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 2012-Sep-25, 00:15, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One of the missing thing since we switch to OptionNG is a reliable
ability to
> > pass options via command line that would override make.conf and config
file
> > options.
> >
> > Here is an implementation that do work:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/OVERRIDE_BLA.diff
> >
> > Now OVERRIDE_SET/UNSET doesn't seems to be the best name :)
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=170180
> >
> > Here are other proposition from me:
> > LATE_SET/UNSET
> > CMD_SET/UNSET
>
> WITH / WITHOUT

I thought this was a joke, but thinking about it, this is the best idea IMO.

Chris