Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:39:50 +0200 From: Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@critical.ch>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Inverting OPTIONS (Was: Re: cvs commit: ports/net-im/libpurple Makefile distinfo) Message-ID: <20100726233950.822f4f13.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007261326560.33929@qbhto.arg> References: <201007250132.o6P1Whjh069411@repoman.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007250056300.1689@qbhto.arg> <20100726135113.0ee77eea.ehaupt@critical.ch> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007261326560.33929@qbhto.arg>
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Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Emanuel Haupt wrote: > > > Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> ports/net-im/libpurple/files/patch-libpurple_protocols_oscar_oscar.c > >> has been added to the latest version, so the patch is no longer > >> needed. > > > > Also, the PLIST is broken if the PERL option is specified: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ehaupt/buildlogs/libpurple-2.7.2.log > > > > Maybe from time to time a QAT exp run with inverted OPTIONS values > > would be revealing. > > As I said on IRC yesterday, there is no reason to expect that simply > inverting OPTIONS would work. A lot of OPTIONS are not binary, and > the defaults are chose to work together, often in harmony with the > dependencies that they trigger. > > Put another way, it does not logically follow that if "A, B, and !C" > works that "!A, !B, and C" would also work. I didn't assume that. It would be an easy way to spot simple mistakes such as incomplete package lists, unfetchable optional distfiles, things like that. Emanuel
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