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Date:      Sat, 3 Aug 2002 23:16:55 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports: mutt with curses instead of slang?
Message-ID:  <20020804061655.GM1973@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020730214952.GA38950@0lsen.net>
References:  <20020724175641.GA16725@0lsen.net> <20020725162811.GD96372@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020730214952.GA38950@0lsen.net>

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On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 02:49:52PM -0700, Clint Olsen wrote:
> On Jul 25, David O'Brien wrote:
> > 
> > Slang should be used when built by the FreeBSD Package cluster.  I much
> > prefer slang over ncurses -- I don't remember the battle I lost such that
> > ncurses is the default.  Just build with `make WANT_SLANG=yes'
> 
> Can you tell me where this WANT_SLANG is documented?  This is one part
> about BSD that I don't like - the intricate build stuff...

No where really.  I don't know how to nicely document the various port
building knobs other than having someone read the port makefile.  Maybe
we need to add a new make target that prints out all the knobs and a
one-line description?

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