From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 20 15:38: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C12214D12 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@stampede.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA12990; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:37:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: from sji-ca50-38.ix.netcom.com(209.111.213.38) by dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma011897; Mon Sep 20 17:31:01 1999 Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id PAA90091; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:30:57 -0700 (PDT) To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAPERSIZE in /etc/make.conf? References: <7s4vte$uau$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 20 Sep 1999 15:30:56 -0700 In-Reply-To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de's message of "20 Sep 1999 11:48:30 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) * I already put that question to -hackers since it also concerns * groff, but I guess I ought to ask about opinions here too, since * the main target are ports: * * How about putting a variable PAPERSIZE (A4, letter) in /etc/make.conf? * We currently have a couple of ports that exist in -a4 and -letter * versions. We also have other ports (e.g. ghostscript55) where the * informed user can choose either format at build time by explicitly * setting a make variable. Wouldn't it be better if ports could pull * this as a system setting automatically out of /etc/make.conf? No. We tried that before. As long as the papersizes are compiled in, it doesn't solve anything and just makes it harder to distinguish between packages. The current system is a result of that failed experiment. * - Some ports support additional paper sizes (letterdj). * - The package builders end up with packages that are unmarked but * assume one papersize. Of course, we already have this situation with * some ports. No reason to spread the problem to *all* papersize-varying ports. ;> Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message