From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 6:21:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC73B37B7A4 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 06:21:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12nLYY-0005An-00; Thu, 04 May 2000 15:20:42 +0200 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:20:42 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: R Joseph Wright Cc: Rahul Dhesi , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stop complaining about x11 please (was: Re: Why does PORTS SUCK so BADLY!?) Message-ID: <20000504152042.B19808@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000501203757.5E8EF99F8D@waltz.rahul.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rjoseph@manatee.mammalia.org on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 03:30:35PM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon 2000-05-01 (15:30), R Joseph Wright wrote: > > Add a section to the Makefile that goes something like this: > > > > ## DEPENDENCIES > > ## This ports depends on xxx, yyy, zzz. > > ## xxx is used for . It's not essential. Default is off. > > ## To enable xxx, uncomment the next line. > > # = > > ## yyy is used for . This is quite important and should > > ## be left in. However, the port will build without it. Default is on. > > ## To disable yyy, comment out the next line. > > = > > ## zzz is essential and must not be removed. > > = > > ## END DEPENDENCIES > > Even better, but more difficult to implement, would be a little ncurses > dialog box that pops up after the person building the port enters > "make". Some ports already have this, offhand I can name ghostscript and > rsaref. It makes things easier for the person who doesn't know they can > alter the makefiles or doesn't feel comfortable doing so. portconf. http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nbm/portconf/ Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message