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Date:      Tue, 9 May 2006 00:30:35 +0300
From:      Sideris Michael <msid@daemons.gr>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports structure and improvement suggestions
Message-ID:  <20060508213035.GA73976@daemons.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200605082120.k48LKxSi006193@peedub.jennejohn.org>
References:  <20060508205703.GA11215@daemons.gr> <200605082120.k48LKxSi006193@peedub.jennejohn.org>

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On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:20:59PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 
> Sideris Michael writes:
> > > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:47:51PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > > No one is taking away any rights.
> > 
> > Of course. That's why every ports should have a configuration panel.
> > 
> 
> Wrong. I do not intend to convert any of my ports to use OPTIONS so
> don't bother sending me patches. Many ports are so simple that adding
> a configuration panel would be totally unnnecessary and ridiculous.

So, if you have 10 of this ports as dependencies, you prefer go seperately 
to each port directory and search through the Makefile to find what KNOBS
it provides. Nice.



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