From owner-freebsd-gnome Wed Feb 13 14:30:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B255A37B416; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:30:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1DMV5a67568; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:31:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:31:05 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: Jeremy Lea Cc: Doug Barton , Ade Lovett , Subject: Re: Xscreensaver and GNOME In-Reply-To: <20020213233226.D55468@shale.csir.co.za> Message-ID: <20020213172853.S65221-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jeremy Lea wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 04:24:04PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote: > > In this case, shouldn't we exclude WANT_GNOME from xscreensaver's > > Makefile, and just have this in the slave port? > > No, because that's the entire point of the WANT_* magic. If a user has > the bits the port wants, then they get supported, if they don't then > they just get a vanilla port, without all the bloat. > > Joe, you've been doing a lot of good patches to Gnome ports. You should > read bsd.port.mk and bsd.gnome.mk and try to understand them. You'll > find that it makes fixing ports a lot simpler. If you stumble on > anything, email me. I've got a pretty good understanding of them both, > and I'll try (as best I can) to explain what the code is doing and why. I have looked through them, and I understand the WANT_/HAVE_ thing. I thought Doug wanted to leave GNOME out of the main port, and just have the slave port activate it. Either way, the WANT_GNOME won't activate the GNOME bits unless GNOME is installed, so I guess that's fine. Sorry for the confusion. Joe > > In fact, that above offer applies to anyone reading this... > > Regards, > -Jeremy > > -- > FreeBSD - Because the best things in life are free... > http://www.freebsd.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message