From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 29 14:28:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0570237B401; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:28:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA10471; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3B8CFDF0.E716421F@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:28:42 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Maxim Sobolev Subject: Re: ports.conf Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Langer , Peter Pentchev Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29-Aug-01 Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Err, as I already clarified I meant *defaults* could be placed into > bsd.ports.mk. This is developer friendly, but not user friendly. That is an obscure place to find this information for a non-ports developer. Please keep users in mind. > The whole my > point is that I do not see any reason for a separate ${PORTSDIR}/ports.conf > (or ports.conf in > any other dir in ${PORTSDIR}), which gets unconditionally included into > bsd.port.mk. For the > record, I do not see any reason for separating user-configurable > /etc/ports.conf from > /etc/make.conf too, but I do not care either, because I could simply ignore > it and continue > using /etc/make.conf just like I was doing during the last several years. Because make.conf affects _EVERY_ instance of make that is run. This is a bug. /etc/make.conf should only be used for stuff that people want to affect every make command. (I.e., overriding things in sys.mk.) Other modules should use their own configuration file (ports.conf, world.conf, etc.) This concept has been discusssed for years on the mailing lists. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message