From owner-cvs-all Sat Feb 28 12:43:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18009 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:43:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18003; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:43:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id UAA27460; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 20:43:06 GMT Message-ID: <19980228124306.44353@nuxi.com> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:43:06 -0800 From: "David E. O'Brien" To: Chuck Robey Cc: Satoshi Asami , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/c2ps Makefile Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19980228100355.30619@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 02:46:37PM -0500 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Good point by Chuck. Maybe we should keep the current a2ps port as the > > "guts" of the port, and add two shell ports, being a2ps-a4 and > > a2ps-letter. Might be less confusion for someone that doens't use the > > ports collection often. > > David, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that, I might or might not > agree. ... > Some points made by Tim are valid, I think ... PAPERSIZE is, I think > all will agree, a commonly enough used variable to where handling by > bsd.port.mk is reasonable, My points should be taken in a context where we don't change bsd.port.mk. Tim's sugguestions are even better and superseed mine. > Tim, you brought up the idea of doing it in bsd.port.mk. Any more > thoughts? Does anyone else think the cookie notion stinks, or how else > would you handle packaging? Acutally I kinda like the idea of hacking the ports to look for a common file that declares the prefered papersize. This means the same binary works everywhere. Of course we could argue what the default should be if that file is absent... :) -- -- 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