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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:14:43 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Alex Kozlov <ak@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r307837 - head/comms/morse
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On 27 Nov 2012 16:01, "Alexey Dokuchaev" <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:54:00AM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > On 27 November 2012 10:50, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > It is not just a matter of aesthetics, it's reducing environment
pollution
> > > with gratuitously different names of standard knobs.  As for POLA,
these
> > > days people are supposed to cache their OPTIONS selection in
/var/db/ports
> > > instead of hardcoding them in /etc/make.conf.  Upon upgrade, dialog
will
> > > pop up again since OPTIONS had changed, nothing should go unnoticed
here.
> >
> > Some people do not want to use the dialog(1) interface. Using
> > /etc/make.conf is expected and fully supported.   We should not
> > gratuitously break option names.
>
> OK; however, in this case we're not gratuitously breaking it, we're
changing
> bogus name to more explicit, standard, used in many other ports name.
>
> If someone feels badly about it, UPDATING note can be added, although IMHO
> in this case nothing really warrants it.  It is not particularly popular
> port, and it's better to fix these issues early rather that later.  Dixi,

We can also leave compat shims in if people get very angry.

Chris



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