Date: 26 Oct 2003 14:31:15 -0000 From: tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas-Martin Seck) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/58525: [PATCH] port devel/portlint: USE_* should be no user-settable option Message-ID: <20031026143115.754.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <3F9ADF6B.8010908@fillmore-labs.com>
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* Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>: > While I appreciate your dedication to the best possible solution, I have > more than two half-baked scripts implementing parsed WITH_* options. I > Would be pleased to participate in a project that specifies and implements > such a concept. In the meantime I think this patch is a small step towards > deprecating USE_* as user-settable options, with USE_GCC being an unfortunate > exception. You are right, this patch is trivial, but it deals with current > problems... No, you are working around the symptoms. To my knowledge there are no rules which enforce the namespace to use for ports tunables and pushing monster patchsets into GNATS once in a while will not change this. That is the problem I try to address. That only a minor amount of ports will actually be patched (as recently seen with CONFLICTS) is another issue.
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