Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:28:19 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominic Fandrey <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggested improvements for ports Message-ID: <478930F3.2030309@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4788D0E6.7080007@gmx.de> References: <ED8842DFA28376008F3CA3A4@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <4788D0E6.7080007@gmx.de>
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Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> 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.
And it's surprising how often people don't listen when I explain that
config-recursive is not a complete solution. :) It builds the list
first, so that if you enable an option that creates a dependency on
another port it will be missed. Portmaster does not have that limitation
because it runs 'make config' before doing the dependency check for each
port.
Doug
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