From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 16 01:05:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0319416A4D0 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:05:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3C243D49 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:05:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1F9895143A; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:08:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:08:01 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Frank Laszlo Message-ID: <20041116010801.GA40080@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200411151324.09969.ringworm@inbox.lv> <41991FB5.8010605@vonostingroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41991FB5.8010605@vonostingroup.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: "Michael C. Shultz" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding options for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:05:08 -0000 --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:29:25PM -0500, Frank Laszlo wrote: > I believe I brought up the idea of "showoptions" in a previous post.=20 > Maybe we should bring it back up :) > We should really have a standard file/section to denote these options in= =20 > an easily readable format. We cant assume > that normal users are going to open up the Makefile and look around=20 > aimlessly for them. anyways, just my 2 cents. If the port has been converted to use OPTIONS, then there's already a list ('make showconfig'). If the port hasn't been converted to OPTIONS, it would still need to be converted to your proposed 'make showconfig', so you might as well just go all the way and make it use OPTIONS. Kris --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBmVLxWry0BWjoQKURAlUEAJ0QZcsIjPvXHvOcZzgeRpN7UTkKdgCcCWem eqUftf45v4mO/JfQ7oqhb0M= =dHMY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--