From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 12 21:28:27 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 9CAF116A41B for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:28:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1ED2113C442 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:28:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 5353 invoked by uid 399); 12 Jan 2008 21:28:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.4?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTP; 12 Jan 2008 21:28:20 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <478930F3.2030309@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:28:19 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominic Fandrey References: <4788D0E6.7080007@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <4788D0E6.7080007@gmx.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 21:28:27 -0000 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. And it's surprising how often people don't listen when I explain that config-recursive is not a complete solution. :) It builds the list first, so that if you enable an option that creates a dependency on another port it will be missed. Portmaster does not have that limitation because it runs 'make config' before doing the dependency check for each port. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection