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From: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>
To: Tony Maher <tonym@biolateral.com.au>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: portupgrade-20020103
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Tony Maher on 2002-01-08 (Tue) at 20:06:08 +1100:
> 
> > while, ever since I started using the portupgrade program.  It would be
> > nice if the ports sub system would remember what command line options
> > were used when a port has been built.  Or maybe having the option of
> 
> For portupgrade it already exists:
> 
[ snip ]
> 
> But it would be nice if the ports system handled it intrinsically.

What about the idea of a standard target for ports ("help"?) that simply
lists all the options which may be used when building that port?

-- V

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