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Date:      Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:40:38 +0400
From:      Subbsd <subbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why vim ports have personal KNOBS for options
Message-ID:  <BANLkTik-401k6N94upmS2WrxNtERsP0puA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110327184837.GA36228@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wr=
ote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:19:44PM +0400, Subbsd wrote:
>> Ive wanted to ask why the option of vim port has not yet been handed
>> via dialog by default. Personally, to make them work, we must define
>> WITH_OPTIONS=3Dyes in make.conf (or WITH_VIM_OPTIONS=3Dyes). Life withou=
t
>> it is so difficult ;)
>
> Because the maintainer of the vim port has a dislike for the OPTIONS
> framework.
>


I expected to hear that just so happened historically. =F4ext question I
ask only to satisfy my interest. What OPTIONS framework basically can
someone not like it?
=E3hat are the disadvantages compared to " grep define
/usr/ports/<category>/<portname>/Makefile "? Maybe the other of
thousand maintainrs something not know about it?



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