From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 12 15:04:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF09F16A481 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:04:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917E813C458 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:04:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JUJ002VEDUZVFQ0@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:04:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0CF48vH056856; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:04:10 -0500 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:04:08 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <4788D0E6.7080007@gmx.de> To: Dominic Fandrey Message-id: <4788D6E8.2060902@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 References: <4788D0E6.7080007@gmx.de> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080104) Cc: Paul Schmehl , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Suggested improvements for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:04:13 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: >> 1) You can't build a dependent port and first set the config for >> the options that you want. So, when you select sasl in postfix, >> you never get the chance to check the saslauthd option, for >> example. > > As the ports man page states: > > # make config-recursive > > does what you want. It's surprising how often people claim this > feature is missing, even though it has been there ever since I > started using FreeBSD. > Not completely correct for reasons given in http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools. http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. "Free software != Free beer" Blog: http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHiNbojRvRjGmHRgQRAl6eAJ44bZjGTFUE5QZA9cr9RrUId4zpPgCfQx9P H497bxS3MsfUfTulQT+Sjf8= =An0E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----