Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:14:19 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can somebody please have a look at ports/78931? Message-ID: <4266F05B.5020301@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050420225217.58295f0a.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> References: <20050420194825.76ebf3c0.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <op.spjl56u59aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <20050420203250.597f6ae8.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <op.spjqsimr9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <4266BCBA.2070406@ahze.net> <20050420225217.58295f0a.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:34:02 -0400 > Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> wrote: > > > >>Personally I don't like the idea of OPTIONS in gimp, well atleast not >>all of them >>ie. WITHOUT_JPEG, who is really going to use that OPTION. > > > Well, in it's current state the user is informed about what knobs she > can tune. I didn't add any of my own, but simply converted the port > from manual to OPTIONS. Maybe it doesn't make much sense to build gimp > without jpeg or png support, but the choice is there in case anyone > needs it. People who don't know/don't care can always use the default > options which should suit most people's needs. Emphatically agreed. OPTIONS is there to make it easy for users to tune their ports. I think it's foolish for us to ignore OPTIONS, especially in something like the GIMP where there are tons of tunables. I think it's a serious mistake for things such as GIMP and MPlayer not to use OPTIONS. WITHOUT_JPEG doesn't need to be a tunable, but something like WITH_HTML_HELP_VIEWER_THINGER does. I think your work moves us forwards instead of further backwards, Miguel. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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