From owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 07:26:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D88716A4CE; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:26:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB4A43D39; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:26:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6C7Q0om038602; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i6C7Pw1f038601; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:25:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:25:58 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20040712072558.GA38505@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200407120516.i6C5GThX001618@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040712054253.GB33305@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040712062800.GA37188@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040712063346.GA36974@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040712063346.GA36974@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/gettext Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:26:01 -0000 On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 11:33:46PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 11:28:00PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:42:53PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:16:29AM +0000, David E. O'Brien wrote: > > > > obrien 2004-07-12 05:16:29 UTC > > > > > > > > FreeBSD ports repository > > > > > > > > Modified files: > > > > devel/gettext Makefile > > > > Log: > > > > Fix the release build. > > > > > > What's the problem? This surely isn't the best way to fix it. > > > > Some ports needed in a 'make release' have dependencies on gettext. > > > > If either of the nobs had any real functionality, *maybe* the overly > > interactive dialog would be worth it. But this port was hassling users > > over useless bits. To tell the truth, I don't think "WITH_HTMLMAN" > > actually does anything. > > > > If this were the 'mutt-devel' port, I could understand the use of > > "OPTIONS". But if someone is really missing these bits, a gettext- > > port should be created. > > The interactive OPTIONS setting is easily disabled by setting BATCH Interactive OPTIONS are heavy weight in the usability department -- the Ports committers needs to take a serious look at what warrants OPTIONS use. Otherwise the Ports Collection will become a tangled mess and less and less usable. For one example, needing the root password twice just to *BUILD* a port is unacceptable. > (which is the canonical way to disable all kinds of port > interactivity). You should just add that to the release port build > environment instead. Are you really saying HTML man pages justifies the use of OPTIONS compared to how other ports handles much more important options? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)