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Date:      Fri, 5 Feb 1999 00:46:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
To:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf
Message-ID:  <199902050846.AAA00667@bubble.didi.com>
In-Reply-To: <87096.918133465@zippy.cdrom.com> (jkh@zippy.cdrom.com)

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Oh, so you mean you want to put it in /etc/make.conf because that's
where people will look for build stuff and can't be bothered to read
the fetch manpage?

Ok, then please put in a comment there telling them to set
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE in their environment or /etc/login.conf.  That way we
can have the best of both worlds.

I do not agree that we should add a kludge to bsd.port.mk so setting
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE in /etc/make.conf would make it only if you are using
ports.  People will sooner or later try to run "fetch" by itself or
run pkg_add, just to discover that it doesn't work and say "but I set
it in /etc/make.conf!" ;)

Satoshi

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