Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:46:55 +0200 From: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why vim ports have personal KNOBS for options Message-ID: <4D904AFF.1070707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik-401k6N94upmS2WrxNtERsP0puA@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTinymz5kjuysy1dFqoOkhTmUqHVheg@mail.gmail.com> <20110327184837.GA36228@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <BANLkTik-401k6N94upmS2WrxNtERsP0puA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 27/03/2011 21:40, Subbsd wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Erik Trulsson<ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: >> 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=yes in make.conf (or WITH_VIM_OPTIONS=yes). Life without >>> 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. ôext question I > ask only to satisfy my interest. What OPTIONS framework basically can > someone not like it? > ãhat are the disadvantages compared to " grep define > /usr/ports/<category>/<portname>/Makefile "? Maybe the other of > thousand maintainrs something not know about it? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" bapt@ made a proposal to improve the OPTION framework and it will be reviewed by portmgr@ soon. This will include a improvment that obrien@ disliked much : when you have WITHOUT_NLS=true in your /etc/make.conf any port that use OPTIONS framework will not honour this knob and this is obviously painful. The bapt@ patch correct this, so the the new OPTION framework will read these KNOBS (but of course there is more coming) Cheers, -- David Demelier
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