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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:10:53 +0400
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r308655 - in head/games/xmoto: . files
Message-ID:  <20121211161053.GM20652@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <2c086065eb33d54adac9a85832e9f8ad@mail.adamw.org>
References:  <201212110314.qBB3EErH082058@svn.freebsd.org> <20121211033625.GA39028@FreeBSD.org> <20121211132128.GA50148@hades.panopticon> <2c086065eb33d54adac9a85832e9f8ad@mail.adamw.org>

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* Adam Weinberger (adamw@adamw.org) wrote:

> > Not adding them to OPTIONS_DEFINE preserves previous behaviour and I
> > don't think NLS and DOCS should be in the OPTIONS_DEFINE ever - they 
> > are
> > only meaningful to be set globally, and having them in individual 
> > ports
> > makes large builds much more painful, as a user has to set them for 
> > tons
> > of ports (even more painful without portmaster or knowing of
> > config-recursive).
> 
> I think there is some benefit to explicitly adding them with 
> discretion. Ports like ImageMagick, or the Berkeley DB ports, which 
> install massive amounts of documentation, are really nice to be able to 
> selectively disable DOCS for. I think port maintainers can put DOCS in 
> OPTIONS in a meaningful and useful way.

Seconded.

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