Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:07:29 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, nork@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Integrated DEBUG related macros to WITH_DEBUG/WITHOUT_DEBUG Message-ID: <200511131007.35678.lofi@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051113081633.GD69544@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <200511130038.jAD0cgLb043746@sakura.ninth-nine.com> <200511130900.24801.lofi@freebsd.org> <20051113081633.GD69544@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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--nextPart23100702.K2XxiKni0Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 13. November 2005 09:16, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:00:21AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > I don't think it's a good idea at all to unify all debug knobs > > into one universal WITH/WITHOUT_DEBUG - it requires the user to use a > > third party portmanager utilitiy or fiddling with conditionals in > > make.conf if he wants debug symbols on specific ports only. > > Well that goes for the other knobs as well of course -- WITH_PERL, > WITH_PYTHON and other programming extension languages come to mind, as > do NOPORTDOCS and WITHOUT_GUI (there are some things that I don't need > a GUI for on my desktop). And people have expressed their unhappiness with that status quo repeatedly= ,=20 especially in the context of OPTIONS. One very promising proposed solution was to extend the OPTIONS framework to= =20 support NO_OPTIONS_<portname> and WITH|WITHOUT_<option_choice>_<portname>. I agree that this is the way to go - making the currently available switche= s=20 even more ambiguous just in order to get more content into KNOBS is=20 contraproductive. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart23100702.K2XxiKni0Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDdwJXXhc68WspdLARAlhsAJoDxhtiufuyio0cGSP8llLvOPk0eQCffqYR 4h6IYIqLU2946WhVaDd2TUk= =b9Md -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart23100702.K2XxiKni0Q--
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