Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:09:59 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/gettext Makefile
Message-ID:  <20040712080959.GA42480@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040712080310.GA49631@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <200407120516.i6C5GThX001618@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040712054253.GB33305@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040712062800.GA37188@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040712063346.GA36974@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040712072558.GA38505@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040712073015.GL46056@voodoo.oberon.net> <20040712080310.GA49631@dragon.nuxi.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:03:10AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 09:30:15AM +0200, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> > OPTIONS are in pre-beta stage right now.  I don't like it also,
> > but AFAIK eik@ is working at replacement of it.
>  =20
> I'll say they are still 1/2 baked.
>=20
> What's the method for exposing various build options to 'pkg_add -r'
> users?  It is less useful if there isn't a mechanism for choice to those
> users.

For important options you make a slave port.  For trivial options,
which you say these are, that would be a waste of inodes.

> P.S. What is the rule for how obtuse an option can be and still be
>      OPTIONS'ed?

As obtuse as you like, it's *optional*.

Kris
--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFA8kdXWry0BWjoQKURAhD+AKCj2dxQA9UWIGSP3GgeD/JO1BNGbwCg4ZvL
SfqDKjexvejHgAWj2RprAgA=
=MS/U
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040712080959.GA42480>