Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:15:30 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting make options permanently (WITHOUT_GNOME, etc) Message-ID: <20030402201530.GB9496@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030402081419.54AB4E2@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030402135505.00a10ec0@127.0.0.1> <20030402081419.54AB4E2@CRWdog.demon.co.uk>
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--LpQ9ahxlCli8rRTG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:14:19AM -0800, Andy Sparrow wrote: > For some bizarre and inexplicable (at least to me) reason, everyone who= =20 > bikesheds around Yet Another Way to provide persistant build options to= =20 > ports completely ignores this extremely convenient, pre-existing and=20 > perfectly functional mechanism. One of the design features of the ports collection is that it can be used read-only, e.g. mounted read-only via NFS. Makefile.local cannot be used there. > If I want to use BS dialogs[0] to configure things, I'll install Linux=20 > or Slowaris, thanks very much. I *like* setting stuff once in text=20 > files, and I *like* unattended, automatic, recursive-with-my-local-option > s ports upgrades[1] after my cvsup/build/installworlds. Don't use it then..easy! Kris --LpQ9ahxlCli8rRTG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+i0TiWry0BWjoQKURAnm4AKD68bnkrzuykHUWXBemX6PfMif0ggCfUOYr z+IPPwTxa9nPugCFrZ9E99c= =NKJO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LpQ9ahxlCli8rRTG--
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