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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Subject: Re: passing arguments to *_DEPENDS
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:21:46 +0000 (UTC)
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References: <20030219003422.GD31515@rot13.obsecurity.org> <BA786D6D.2915F%ade@lovett.com>
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Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> wrote:

> An alternate, and also compatible view is to run a sweep through the ports
> tree, ensure that all such optional stuff is controlled by a WITH_* or
> WITHOUT_* variable (much needed standardization anyway), and then have
> +CONTENTS modified with a new @options:[<opt1[=val1],[opt2=...]] field.

> I believe we need to rethink the concept of ports either being thin (minimal
> number of dependencies) or thick (maximal dependencies), and work on a
> generic optional-dependency system that individual ports may use.

OpenBSD's FLAVOR system, in short.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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