Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:01:28 +0200 From: Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup <seb@struchtrup.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, eivind@freebsd.org Subject: alternative options for ports Message-ID: <416C0DE8.3000004@struchtrup.com>
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I would like to poll if there is any need for an extension to the current menu-driven config frontend. My idea was to implement a kind of alternative options, like radio-buttons in a gui, using "dialog --menu" or something like this. Not enable/disable options, but a way to select one option out of a few others. For a new port (the lxr source code cross referencer) I will need a selection of one of three database clients to use and one of two indexing/search engine. Please correct me if if there is yet a way to achieve this other than coding directly in the ports' makefile. Will there be any use for some other ports (in the future?). I would go to implement this in bsd.port.mk if this is favoured and would make sense for others. Otherwise, I would implement a way in the ports makefile or using a command line/environment option like WITH_DB=xxxx. I would be pleased to get some feedback. Thanks, Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup
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