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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:43:39 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: named/bind98... rather ports usage and base interaction.
Message-ID:  <CADLo838HhMQwG1S_sK4Y3_3yyTZJQeW4t6hjni8RaOSE_22bpw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F6E40BC.6020400@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20120323154105.GB84340@DataIX.net> <4F6E40BC.6020400@FreeBSD.org>

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On 24 Mar 2012 21:47, "Doug Barton" <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 3/23/2012 8:41 AM, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
> >
> > Hey Doug,
> >
> > Do you know of anything we could do to stop the following from happening
> > ?
>
> Yes, see below.
>
> > If you set world to build without BIND and it is your intention to use
> > bind from ports... upon running (make delete-old)
>
> I don't like the delete-old stuff, and make no efforts to support it.
> That said, the solution to your problem is to not use WITHOUT_BIND, but
> to use the various other WITHOUT_BIND_* knobs, except for
> WITHOUT_BIND_ETC. Yes, this is clunky; no, I have no plans to change it.

I would agree in the sense that delete-old should not be deleting stuff
just because it's set WITHOUT.  We should really use two targets, one for
old stuff, and one for irrelevant stuff.

Chris



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