From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 15:06:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E8637B401; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:06:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C38843F75; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:06:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@freebsd.org) Received: from 12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com ([12.234.22.23]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with SMTP id <2003041622062105200eoa60e>; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:06:21 +0000 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:06:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1050481352.341.37.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Message-ID: <20030416150456.L37135@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> References: <1050481352.341.37.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNOME desktop users X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:06:22 -0000 On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Well, a belated HEADS UP, anyway. For a week or so now, a new make > option has existed to help keep people from overwriting their GNOME > desktop version when installing certain ports. This option is called > GNOME_DESKTOP_VERSION (similar to XFREE86_VERSION). It accepts one of > two values: 1 or 2. If you want to or are using the GNOME 2 desktop, > you should add: > > GNOME_DESKTOP_VERSION= 2 I think this is a good idea, I just have one suggestion. Can you set a default value for this, which the user can override (similar to XFREE86_VERSION as you pointed out)? I think that will reduce the foot-shooting possibilities down the road.... Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection