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Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] New framework options aka optionng
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On 5/30/2012 2:33 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 5/30/2012 3:33 AM, Vitaly Magerya wrote:
>>> Folks, when moving forward with optionsng, do we want to convert
>>> NOPORTDOCS and NOPORTEXAMPLES to options everywhere?
>>
>> Absolutely not. By far the majority of users benefit from installing the
>> docs and examples. Users who don't want them can continue to do what
>> they've always done, configure it in make.conf. Adding OPTIONS for these
>> would only cause confusion.
> 
> I'll go one further and suggest that the vast majority who don't want
> these features are building specialized systems and they know very
> well what they are doing. A global setting for these would be
> desirable, though, as someone building a specialized distribution for,
> say, an embedded system, will want no docs or examples for any port. I
> suspect it is ALMOST always an all or nothing issue, not per port.

Exactly. And the global option already exists.

If someone really did need this per port then portconf or similar
make.conf gymnastics are available.

The new OPTIONS stuff looks promising, and I think it's a step in the
right direction. But please let's not try to make it a one-size-fits-all
solution.

Doug

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