From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 14:32:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4956E35 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 14:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from os-mail-6.tamu.edu (os-mail-6.tamu.edu [165.91.22.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mail.tamu.edu", Issuer "InCommon Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B674184F for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 14:32:04 +0000 (UTC) X-TAMU-Auth-ID: daved X-TAMU-SenderIP: 74.192.37.226 X-HAT: SG None, P $RELAY, L incoming_auth X-SRBS: None X-EXTLoop1: 74.192.37.226 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,818,1389765600"; d="scan'208";a="120889692" From: Dave Duchscher Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Suggestion for port maintainers Message-Id: Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 09:30:51 -0500 To: ports@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:32:04 -0000 Port Maintainers, Just a suggestion: If you are going to remove an option from your port, = it would be nice if you would make the port break when that option is = used. We build our own packages with custom options and this little = issue just caused some issues for us. We can=92t watch updates to every = port we build and we just got bit by the option APACHE being removed = from lang/php5 port. =97 DaveD