From owner-cvs-all Sat Feb 28 12:05:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14394 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:05:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14380; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:05:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id UAA27359; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 20:05:30 GMT Message-ID: <19980228120530.44879@nuxi.com> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:05:30 -0800 From: "David E. O'Brien" To: Mikael Karpberg Cc: Satoshi Asami , chuckr@glue.umd.edu, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/c2ps Makefile Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199802280210.SAA19632@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> <199802281157.MAA04516@ocean.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199802281157.MAA04516@ocean.campus.luth.se>; from Mikael Karpberg on Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 12:57:01PM +0100 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Why not just leave it as one port, and generate two packages called > XXX-a4.tgz and XXX-letter.tgz from it? Or... The next generation of the package tools should support "fat" packages, a-la MacIntosh "fat" binaries. > If it's just a matter of getting a default value for the runtime when the > user doesn't have the env variable PAPERSIZE set, just make all ports > that use it depend on one papersize_default "port", which simply querries the > user for his prefered default format and writes that to a file like > /usr/local/etc/papersize_default and so all ports can just do something like: Good idea. But, rather than read a file, just check for its existance, ie, access(2). Say /usr/local/etc/papersize-a4 or /usr/local/etc/papersize-letter. > Hmm... Just my $.02 Of course diffs are *always* welcomed. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message