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Date:      Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:12:14 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-stable-9@FreeBSD.org, Robert Millan <rmh@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r231905 - in stable/9: share/mk sys/conf sys/modules sys/modules/drm sys/modules/sound/driver sys/modules/usb tools/build/options
Message-ID:  <620BB0E6-6290-4B91-B668-0F67A38E153B@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120219210834.K1461@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201202190744.q1J7icCo070188@svn.freebsd.org> <20120219210834.K1461@besplex.bde.org>

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On Feb 19, 2012, at 3:38 AM, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Robert Millan wrote:
>=20
>> Log:
>> MFC r230972,r230980,r231559,r231565: Add MK_SOURCELESS build option, =
and
>> associated fixes.
>>=20
>> Approved by:	kib (mentor)
>=20
> Do the file names have to be as ugly as the macros?  scottl liked =
moving
> them to the MI conf directory, but the make a bigger mess there since
> there are more files there.  For ls -C in -current now:

For the record, I like these files no where, but they are less intrusive =
in /sys/conf.  Even less intrusive would be in simply documenting the =
options in a man page and leaving it at that.  I also think that the =
options have the potential to politicize code, which I really, really, =
really, REALLY, don't like.

Scott




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