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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:50:46 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alex Kozlov <ak@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r307837 - head/comms/morse
Message-ID:  <20121127155046.GA72381@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121127151842.GA5768@ravenloft.kiev.ua>
References:  <201211271205.qARC54XQ060171@svn.freebsd.org> <20121127125610.GA59490@FreeBSD.org> <20121127133107.GA740@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <20121127135846.GA63249@FreeBSD.org> <20121127151842.GA5768@ravenloft.kiev.ua>

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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 05:18:42PM +0200, Alex Kozlov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 01:58:46PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:31:07PM +0200, Alex Kozlov wrote:
> > > I suppose I can change PA_DESC to PULSEAUDIO_DESC, but it's not really
> > > matter, because in this case specific descriptions are better and I'm not
> > > going to use generic ones from bsd.options.desc.mk.
> > 
> > Yes, that was my point: use standard names, adjust default descriptions if
> > you feel that they are too generic for this particular case.
> 
> Fine, I will ask maintainer if he wants to change description name
> for an aesthetic purposes. It would be minor POLA violation though,
> some users may have already set PA in make.conf.

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.

./danfe



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