Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:43:06 -0800 From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/c2ps Makefile Message-ID: <19980228124306.44353@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980228144155.316T-100000@localhost>; from Chuck Robey on Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 02:46:37PM -0500 References: <19980228100355.30619@nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980228144155.316T-100000@localhost>
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> > Good point by Chuck. Maybe we should keep the current a2ps port as the > > "guts" of the port, and add two shell ports, being a2ps-a4 and > > a2ps-letter. Might be less confusion for someone that doens't use the > > ports collection often. > > David, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that, I might or might not > agree. ... > Some points made by Tim are valid, I think ... PAPERSIZE is, I think > all will agree, a commonly enough used variable to where handling by > bsd.port.mk is reasonable, My points should be taken in a context where we don't change bsd.port.mk. Tim's sugguestions are even better and superseed mine. > Tim, you brought up the idea of doing it in bsd.port.mk. Any more > thoughts? Does anyone else think the cookie notion stinks, or how else > would you handle packaging? Acutally I kinda like the idea of hacking the ports to look for a common file that declares the prefered papersize. This means the same binary works everywhere. Of course we could argue what the default should be if that file is absent... :) -- -- 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
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