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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:38:30 +0100
From:      Dominic Fandrey <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Suggested improvements for ports
Message-ID:  <4788D0E6.7080007@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <ED8842DFA28376008F3CA3A4@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
References:  <ED8842DFA28376008F3CA3A4@utd59514.utdallas.edu>

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Paul Schmehl wrote:
> 1) You can't build a dependent port and first set the config for the
> options that you want.  So, when you select sasl in postfix, you never
> get the chance to check the saslauthd option, for example.

As the ports man page states:

# make config-recursive

does what you want. It's surprising how often people claim this feature is
missing, even though it has been there ever since I started using FreeBSD.



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