Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:19:01 -0400 From: Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can somebody please have a look at ports/78931? Message-ID: <4266F175.2060003@ahze.net> In-Reply-To: <4266F05B.5020301@FreeBSD.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> <4266F05B.5020301@FreeBSD.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFD4B4B92A517B29BDD539DD0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam Weinberger wrote: > 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. yeah, I totally agree with the WITH_HTML_HELP_BROWSER and WITHOUT_PRINT (and few others?) being options, but all the graphic (jpeg, png, etc) stuff I feel should be left as knobs, or maybe even removed? Michael > > # Adam > > --------------enigFD4B4B92A517B29BDD539DD0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCZvF1n4uqfTwEb9YRAmLdAJ0bk05rN1gWJ5h9T+EJ22HC1nabmACgqraN /eRX4OQ1TVWm7Edwnl6hZjQ= =PxTP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFD4B4B92A517B29BDD539DD0--
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