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From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Standardized make options (or no doesn't always mean no)
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Is anyone planning to do something about the hugely confusing state of
NO/NO_ options?  I can never remember which options have an underscore
after the NO, so I end up writing commands like
`make kernel ... NO_KERNELCLEAN=true NOKERNELCLEAN=true'.  It would
very nice if we could standardize this and add some compatibility
shims for historical spellings.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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