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Date:      Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:03:08 +0200
From:      Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: OPTIONS improvement
Message-ID:  <200704042303.09002.danny@ricin.com>
In-Reply-To: <1175719008.91901.5.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
References:  <20070403051207.GW3330@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw> <4612DAC9.1090505@sa2c.net> <1175719008.91901.5.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>

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On Wednesday 04 April 2007 22:36:48 Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> NIIMI Satoshi p=C3=AD=C5=A1e v st 04. 04. 2007 v 07:52 +0900:
> > On 2007/04/03 14:12, Rong-En Fan wrote:
> > > After pav@'s commit to bsd.port.mk, now you can test WITH/WITHOUT
> > > freely with OPTIONS.
> >
> > I filed a PR ports/78343 with similar patch, but the PR was rejected.
> > Why the policy has been changed?
>
> Guess we're two years smarter now.
>
> People kept doing it wrong way even when we repeatedly told them how to
> do it. In the end, it's probably easier to fix the infrastructure :)

Wise. Though I now have to unlearn the one-true-way ;-)

Any chance you feel inspired to also make a provision for mutually exclusiv=
e=20
options (like radiobuttons)? That would be very useful IMO. Someone pointed=
=20
me to a PR some time ago that did just that.

Cheers,

Dan



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