From owner-cvs-ports Sat Feb 28 15:01:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29987 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 15:01:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-ports) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29881; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 15:01:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id XAA01242; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 23:01:14 GMT Message-ID: <19980228150114.49966@nuxi.com> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 15:01:14 -0800 From: "David E. O'Brien" To: Chuck Robey Cc: Satoshi Asami , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/c2ps Makefile Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19980228124306.44353@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 05:55:27PM -0500 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Acutally I kinda like the idea of hacking the ports to look for a common > > file that declares the prefered papersize. This means the same binary > > works everywhere. Of course we could argue what the default should be > > if that file is absent... :) > > Yeah, but how about the rest of the problem, ie., are there to be two (or > more??) packages per port for ports that have USES_PAPERSIZE defined? Nope. Only one port, only port package. Either add it to FreeBSD's install (about the point they pick their timezone, since we could guess from that). Or an interactive question during `make install' / pkg_add that asks if the cookie isn't present. > And how about naming conventions? ${PREFIX}/etc/papersize-{a4,letter,legal} or if we get sysintall suport /etc/papersize-{a4,letter,legal} Or maybe we hack the ports to do the right thing for timezones known to be in USA. That would probably solve most of our problems. > One last thing is that, if we _do_ decide on PAPERSIZE, then I thin we > ought to ask Jordan to include such a thing in installation setup, and > move the file into, perhaps, /etc or /etc/make.conf (as a defined var). Yes. Of course Jordan is always happy to take diffs. :) -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)