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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:24:41 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Synth and circular dependencies
Message-ID:  <CAJuc1zOvS51-MsVqcwAfMGYoeNV46wZm5agNecM6o3u2WL_rrQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 22 August 2017 at 15:17, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote:
[...]
> I really need to be able to see the options in a better way than the FreeBSD ports framework allows, like in a file /etc/mk.conf (pkgsrc) or USE= ... as in /etc/make.conf (Gentoo portage).
>
> Dialog4ports is better than the previous dialog but not as good as seeing in a file mk.conf or make.conf .
>
> Otherwise, I don't really know any elegant way to fix the options mess I got into.

Any reason why don't you can't all your options into /etc/make.conf?
I've never used /var/db/ports options as they're not easy to review in
one go.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>



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