Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:39:38 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports-options and packages Message-ID: <200302231939.38539.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20030223175622.37df1a27.sheep.killer@cultdeadsheep.org> References: <200302231547.16715.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20030223175622.37df1a27.sheep.killer@cultdeadsheep.org>
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--Boundary-02=_qVRW+b6osb4ICXZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 23 February 2003 17:56, you wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, I think that default options are maintainer's choice. Stop > me if I'm wrong, but it should be a nightmare to maintain a such system. I honestly don't know, that's why I was asking the question on the mailing= =20 list - maybe people are already coming up with something clever. > Generally maintainer of a port doesn't maintain its dependencies. > Default options are needed to keep ports tree consistency. Moreover, > "full run" will take too much time (re-compiling all this new packages > for stable i386/alpha, current on all other arch's etc.). It implies > too, that maintainer specifies which switch must be used at packaging > time. That's already happening now, and that's what makes me unhappy. Most=20 maintainers (myself included) go with a policiy of "pull as few deps in as= =20 possible" when adding Makefile-switches to ports. For packages users this=20 means, that they usually will have to install the ports-collection and=20 compile their ports, even if they'd rather not, just because they want=20 mplayer (for example) to have a GUI, or transcode to support xvid... and ev= en=20 worse, a novice FreeBSD user has absolutely no way of even knowing that it = is=20 actually possible to get, for example, an mplayer with a GUI, because neith= er=20 the packages nor existing documentation describes that ports offer options= =20 that packages do not. =2D-=20 Regards, Michael Nottebrock --Boundary-02=_qVRW+b6osb4ICXZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+WRVqXhc68WspdLARAo5dAKCr0zIHkIo4ppexVjNnLGMSYo7Z2QCglhxX jUsk2EVfRpGwBoUaTPHjRUc= =TUQj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_qVRW+b6osb4ICXZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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