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From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Subject: Re: docs/27807: [PATCH] The port variables for optional packages aren't documented 
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The following reply was made to PR docs/27807; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc: mwm@mired.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/27807: [PATCH] The port variables for optional packages aren't documented 
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:14:07 -0500

 Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> types:
 > mwm@mired.org writes:
 > > Apply the attached patch to the porters handbook. WITHOUT_X has
 > > already been documented in the make.conf man page. WITH/WITHOUT_* for
 > > the WANT/HAVE variables should be done after this patch is
 > > committed. And yes, I'm willing to write that up as well.
 > I hope you don't intend on documenting (WANT|HAVE)_* in the man page;
 > they certainly don't belong there.  Sticking them along side the
 > discussion of dependencies or some such in the Porter's Handbook would
 > be great, though.
 
 Nope, I wasn't going to do that. What would go in the man page would
 be the WITH/WITHOUT variables.
 
 > > +      <para>The easiest of these to use is
 > > +	<literal>WITHOUT_X</literal>. If the port can be built both
 > Isn't WITHOUT_X a make variable?  I.e., shouldn't it be marked up with
 > <makevar>?
 
 Yes, it is, and yes, it should. I should have caught that when I
 proofed it.
 
 	Thanx,
 	<mike
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