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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:58:50 +0400
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r308655 - in head/games/xmoto: . files
Message-ID:  <20121211155850.GA27873@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <20121211132840.GD58883@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <201212110314.qBB3EErH082058@svn.freebsd.org> <20121211033625.GA39028@FreeBSD.org> <20121211132128.GA50148@hades.panopticon> <20121211132840.GD58883@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>

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* Baptiste Daroussin (bapt@FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> > > Looks like these two should also be mentioned in OPTIONS_DEFINE.
> > 
> > Not adding them to OPTIONS_DEFINE preserves previous behaviour and I
> > don't think NLS and DOCS should be in the OPTIONS_DEFINE ever - they are
> > only meaningful to be set globally, and having them in individual ports
> > makes large builds much more painful, as a user has to set them for tons
> > of ports (even more painful without portmaster or knowing of
> > config-recursive).
> 
> My opinion on this is if you have already an OPTIONS_DEFINE it means that the
> dialog(1) will be shown anyway so it doesn't hurt to add NLS and DOCS to it.
> 
> if you do not have OPTIONS_DEFINE for something else then yes I can understand
> you don't want to bother users with dialog coming up all the time.

The said is true, but so it is inconsistent. What if there's single
`true' option in addition to DOCS/NLS and it's removed? Removing NLS and
DOCS this way has no real reason and is POLA violation wrt users who use
them. Leaving them, otoh, is a pain for users which never built this port.

I'd prefer some additional infrastructure to deal with it. The following
solution seem really convenient for me:

Introduce user-set list of options which are handled a bit differently:
when the port is build for the first time, and for config-recursive
(afaik, both are handled in config-conditional target), the dialog
is not brought up if ALL of options are in that list. They are still
shown in plain `make config'.

That way a user who doesn't care of NLS and DOCS should just set e.g.:

OPTIONS_IGNORE=	NLS DOCS

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