Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:05:30 -0800 From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/c2ps Makefile Message-ID: <19980228120530.44879@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199802281157.MAA04516@ocean.campus.luth.se>; from Mikael Karpberg on Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 12:57:01PM %2B0100 References: <199802280210.SAA19632@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> <199802281157.MAA04516@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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> Why not just leave it as one port, and generate two packages called > XXX-a4.tgz and XXX-letter.tgz from it? Or... The next generation of the package tools should support "fat" packages, a-la MacIntosh "fat" binaries. > If it's just a matter of getting a default value for the runtime when the > user doesn't have the env variable PAPERSIZE set, just make all ports > that use it depend on one papersize_default "port", which simply querries the > user for his prefered default format and writes that to a file like > /usr/local/etc/papersize_default and so all ports can just do something like: Good idea. But, rather than read a file, just check for its existance, ie, access(2). Say /usr/local/etc/papersize-a4 or /usr/local/etc/papersize-letter. > Hmm... Just my $.02 Of course diffs are *always* welcomed. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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