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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:51:07 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile src/lib Makefile src/sbin Makefile src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.sbin Makefile
Message-ID:  <20030829135107.GJ10898@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030829090446.44583A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200308291035.h7TAZ1Wm008611@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030829090446.44583A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson wrote this message on Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:08 -0400:
> I was somewhat hopeful that a further outcome might be that Makefiles are
> scattered around containing fields like:
> 
> COMPONENT=	ACPI
> COMPONENT=	OPENSSL
> 
> so that individual Makefiles would contain positive assertions about what
> they are, meaning that the Makefile infrastructure could later be tweaked
> to do installs of only those components...

I second this.  Then we might even be able to add dependancies to the
makefiles too! :)

-- 
  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."



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