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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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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

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