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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Subject: Proposal for bsd.port.mk changes.
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	Hi all!

There are currently several MATSTER_SITE_* variable defined in the
bsd.port.mk. The idea (hence the change proposal) is to add new global
(that is - defined (of course if the user wants so) in /etc/make.conf)
variables:

LOCAL_SITE_GNU
LOCAL_SITE_CPAN
LOCAL_SITE_CTAN
LOCAL_SITE_XCONTRIB

The reasoning - from time to time it just happens that there is a mirror
of some of the above close to you (like the University mirrors it in it's
ftp server, or some big server is close to you) and it would be nice if it
tried it out first.

Any comments?

	Sander

PS. Overiding the variables in make.conf is not very pretty as you may
have to add your local site + copy the list (the local copy is out of
date, etc.)