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Date:      14 Feb 2002 01:14:27 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@mail.ru>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG>, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Xscreensaver and GNOME
Message-ID:  <1013641756.24926.1.camel@notebook>
In-Reply-To: <20020213172853.S65221-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20020213172853.S65221-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 00:31, Joe Clarke wrote:=20
>=20
>=20
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jeremy Lea wrote:
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> > 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 shoul=
d
> > 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.
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> 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 th=
e
> GNOME bits unless GNOME is installed, so I guess that's fine.  Sorry for
> the confusion.

Absolutely correct, WANT_GNOME ensures that GNOME only be activated if
either WITH_GNOME is specified in the /etc/make.conf or gnome bits are
already installed on the user's box.

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