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Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 23:43:19 +0200
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Cc: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports structure and improvement suggestions
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On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:30:35AM +0300, Sideris Michael wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:20:59PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > 
> > Sideris Michael writes:
> > > > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:47:51PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > > > No one is taking away any rights.
> > > 
> > > Of course. That's why every ports should have a configuration panel.
> > > 
> > 
> > Wrong. I do not intend to convert any of my ports to use OPTIONS so
> > don't bother sending me patches. Many ports are so simple that adding
> > a configuration panel would be totally unnnecessary and ridiculous.
> 
> So, if you have 10 of this ports as dependencies, you prefer go seperately 
> to each port directory and search through the Makefile to find what KNOBS
> it provides. Nice.

Even for ports that do use the OPTIONS framework you often have to search
through the Makefiles anyway to find out exactly what each option actually
does.  Using OPTIONS will not gain you much in this regard.



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Erik Trulsson
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