Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:31:05 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG>, <gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Xscreensaver and GNOME Message-ID: <20020213172853.S65221-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020213233226.D55468@shale.csir.co.za>
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jeremy Lea wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 04:24:04PM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote: > > In this case, shouldn't we exclude WANT_GNOME from xscreensaver's > > Makefile, and just have this in the slave port? > > No, because that's the entire point of the WANT_* magic. If a user has > the bits the port wants, then they get supported, if they don't then > they just get a vanilla port, without all the bloat. > > Joe, you've been doing a lot of good patches to Gnome ports. You should > read bsd.port.mk and bsd.gnome.mk and try to understand them. You'll > find that it makes fixing ports a lot simpler. If you stumble on > anything, email me. I've got a pretty good understanding of them both, > and I'll try (as best I can) to explain what the code is doing and why. I have looked through them, and I understand the WANT_/HAVE_ thing. I thought Doug wanted to leave GNOME out of the main port, and just have the slave port activate it. Either way, the WANT_GNOME won't activate the GNOME bits unless GNOME is installed, so I guess that's fine. Sorry for the confusion. Joe > > In fact, that above offer applies to anyone reading this... > > Regards, > -Jeremy > > -- > FreeBSD - Because the best things in life are free... > http://www.freebsd.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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