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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)

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