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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2001 00:41:59 +0200
From:      Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   NO_* vs. NO* (was: Re: HEADS UP: RELNOTESng now default in -CURRENT, *.TXT files removed
Message-ID:  <20010529004159.F2225@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>
In-Reply-To: <200105281849.f4SIndZ49917@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:49:39AM -0700
References:  <200105251802.f4PI2fn25743@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010527180939.A32462@kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <200105281849.f4SIndZ49917@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>

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Thus spake Bruce A. Mah (bmah@FreeBSD.ORG):

> obrien and dd pointed out (correctly) that the desired behavior can be
> made conditional on NODOC just as easily (which means one less Makefile
> variable).  (The rationale being that it's extremely unlikely that
> someone would want docs but no release notes.)

Yes, that's true.
OTOH, I really wonder why we use NO* for such things
(NODOC, NOCLEAN, [ports: NOPORTDOCS],  ...), but NO_* for some disable knobs,
like sendmail, bind, etc.

This is quite inconsistent, even if it has historical reasons.
Just read the section in make.conf which describes the various
NO_KNOBS and wonder, why it's NOUUCP but NO_SENDMAIL :-)

Odd.

Alex

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