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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>
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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
> 
> 


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