From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 22 3:32:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABDE11580A for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 03:31:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de!naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id MAA09886 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:31:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de!naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m11TjVJ-000WyXC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:20:01 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: PAPERSIZE in /etc/make.conf? Date: 22 Sep 1999 12:14:49 +0200 Message-ID: <7saa6p$5or$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <7s4vte$uau$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * - The package builders end up with packages that are unmarked but > * assume one papersize. Of course, we already have this situation with > * some ports. > > No reason to spread the problem to *all* papersize-varying ports. ;> Does that mean that we have a policy that all ports that compile in a default paper size should come in explicit -a4 and -letter versions (still more Ghostscript versions...)? The current situation where some ports do and some don't, and simply installing a port without first reading the Makefile, or a port being installed as a dependency, can make you end up with letter-programs in A4-country is unsatisfactory. How about this: Every port that requires the distinction comes in a base version that requires PAPERSIZE to be set (/etc/make.conf, environment, etc), plus there are explicit -a4, -letter, etc ports slaved off it that preset PAPERSIZE. The package building machine ignores the base port, dependencies from other ports only refer to the base one. The only disadvantage I see with this: yet more ports. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message