Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:28:55 +0200 (EET) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: will@physics.purdue.edu Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer), ache@nagual.pp.ru (Andrey A. Chernov), will@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/ImageMagick Makefile pkg-descr pkg-p list Message-ID: <200103132328.f2DNStv14881@vic.sabbo.net> In-Reply-To: <20010313182036.M61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> from "Will Andrews" at Mar 13, 2001 06:20:36 PM
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> > A lot of ports have WITH and WITHOUT options. Honoring them all with a > > separate sub-port would explode the ports tree. Think of the amount of > > permutations of mod_php, ghostscript, or postgresql will have. Is NO_X > > -- an exception? May be... I'll do what my mentor tells me to. > > Will's principle: If it's not your port, it's not your problem. > > I dislike creating new directories just for certain options too, but the > way bento builds packages severely limits our options. There was a huge > discussion about this last September (see: "ports options paper" I > wrote), and according to Satoshi some years ago as well. So we have at least several years until next discussion... -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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