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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:38:17 -0500
From:      Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Scheidell <scheidell@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, raven428@gmail.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/pinba_engine Makefile distinfo ports/devel/pinba_engine/files patch-src__ha_pinba.cc
Message-ID:  <20120112133817.GA52741@atarininja.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F0EDE0C.8020005@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 08:20:12AM -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/12/12 8:02 AM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> > Although compatible, MariaDB is not MySQL. From the user perspective I 
> > definitely would not want such behavior. I'd rather vote for adding 
> > extra knobs for that.
> >
> I like knobs.. I push maintainers and submitters to include option 
> knobs, especially when their port does a *_DEPENDS on something that not 
> everyone will want.
> 
> I would ASSUME, if user has 'USE_MYSQL=52' in the make.conf or env, they 
> have made that selection.

Just a quick note for anyone who reads this: Users should _NEVER_ set
USE_* in /etc/make.conf.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-depend.html#USE-VARS

-- WXS



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