Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:40:48 -0700 From: Yuri <yuri@FreeBSD.org> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@FreeBSD.org>, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 60817c50b4c8 - main - Mk/Uses: Add certs.mk to handle dependency on security/ca_root_nss Message-ID: <8677eed4-c8a3-4aee-8305-f440a46d1b90@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5xdq2qbbcr2h75y4zziudbo7cwx4pm6d7s3q3imk77z3t6iodj@vhv2jrsqfmag> References: <69aef1a8.4147d.6669a453@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <5xdq2qbbcr2h75y4zziudbo7cwx4pm6d7s3q3imk77z3t6iodj@vhv2jrsqfmag>
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On 3/9/26 12:14, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> USES handles simple dependencies tied to the presence or absence of a
> base system feature, not mere string substitution. This does not add
> any value, please remove it.
It doesn't matter that this is just a string substitution.
USES=certs:{arg} is a lot more elegant and more readable expression of
that dependency.
This is why macros exist in many programming languages.
A significant amount of macro usage is simple string substitutions, and
particularly in the FreeBSD source tree in /usr/include.
Yuri
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