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From: Alex Kiesel <alex.kiesel@document-root.de>
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On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 18:24, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:29:10PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> > Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > 
> > > pre-fetch, post-fetch... How about a new target, say, "options"?
> > 
> > I would like it. I also suggest to create a "standard" how those
> > option-messages have to look. Maybe it's better to create a variable which
> > get parsed like:
> > 
> > PORT_OPTIONS=	WITHOUT_X11:To build the port w/o X11 support \
> > 		WITH_PNG:To build the port with PNG support
> >               
> 
> See also mail/mailman & emulators/xmame for an alternate implementation.

I think those two are a little bit too verbose :) and they are not
parseable. I think it would be nice to have parseable output that you
could easily use in some kind of frontend...

Generally this target is a very good idea.

Greets,
-Alex