Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 18:18:50 -0400 From: serge.gagnon@b2b2c.ca (Serge Gagnon) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports structure and improvement suggestions Message-ID: <0IYY001DYWNE9C51@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060508213035.GA73976@daemons.gr> References: <20060508205703.GA11215@daemons.gr> <200605082120.k48LKxSi006193@peedub.jennejohn.org> <20060508213035.GA73976@daemons.gr>
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>>>>> On Tue, 9 May 2006, "Sideris" == Sideris Michael wrote:
Sideris> 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.
Sideris> So, if you have 10 of this ports as dependencies, you prefer go
Sideris> seperately to each port directory and search through the Makefile
Sideris> to find what KNOBS it provides. Nice.
For my part, as an average user, it's "yes".
I'm used to
cd ${PORTSDIR}/foo/bar
grep WITH Makefile
more Makefile
/DEPEND
and I have absolutly no problem with this.
I'm also used to work with dumb terminal (9term) and I don't like ports
that stop because it cannot display its blue OPTIONS panel (eg:
ghostscript).
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