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Date:      Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:01:41 +0800
From:      "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com>
To:        "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, NIIMI Satoshi <sa2c@sa2c.net>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: OPTIONS improvement
Message-ID:  <6eb82e0704032301q5581fd9ew8b0a31aac1fdb52f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070404011014.GA20170@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20070403051207.GW3330@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw> <4612DAC9.1090505@sa2c.net> <20070404011014.GA20170@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On 4/4/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:52:57AM +0900, NIIMI Satoshi wrote:
> > On 2007/04/03 14:12, Rong-En Fan wrote:
> > > After pav@'s commit to bsd.port.mk, now you can test WITH/WITHOUT
> > > freely with OPTIONS.
> >
> > I filed a PR ports/78343 with similar patch, but the PR was rejected.
> > Why the policy has been changed?
>
> Different committer, different opinion I guess.  Opinions change over
> time, too :)

Well, current implementation still has one flaw. If users specify WITH/WITHOUT
in make.conf which conflicts with OPTIONS (/var/db/ports/somewhere), the result
depends on how port's Makefile written.

However, I think it's not how OPTIONS works.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan



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