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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r325807 - in head: . Mk
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On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 08:31:42AM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > What I see exactly proves my point: these knobs belong inside the bulk
> > builder, not in the ports' Makefiles.  If I would see, as a user, that I'm
> > having some network problem, I would rather go and fix it, and continue
> > to play with my ports.  This obviously may not work for bulk builders,
> > but that's totally different use case and definitely not something normal
> > ports users should case about or even know = see those USE_PACKAGE_DEPENDS*
> > knobs.
> 
> Yes of course. As the log message said, USE_PACKAGE_DEPENDS *did not
> change*. This *adds a feature* for package building.

OK, I understand now.  I guess I was confused by the USE_* namespace, which
is typically exposed to a port's Makefile usage.

./danfe