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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:20:36 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        mi@aldan.algebra.com
Cc:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, will@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/ImageMagick Makefile pkg-descr pkg-p list
Message-ID:  <20010313182036.M61859@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200103132254.f2DMsLC13137@misha.privatelabs.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:54:20PM -0500
References:  <20010313220607.D815@fump.cichlids.com> <200103132254.f2DMsLC13137@misha.privatelabs.com>

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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:54:20PM -0500, mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote:
> A lot of ports  have WITH and WITHOUT options. Honoring  them all with a
> separate sub-port would  explode the ports tree. Think of  the amount of
> permutations of mod_php,  ghostscript, or postgresql will  have. Is NO_X
> -- an exception? May be... I'll do what my mentor tells me to.

Will's principle:  If it's not your port, it's not your problem.

I dislike creating new directories just for certain options too, but the
way bento builds packages severely limits our options.  There was a huge
discussion about this last September (see: "ports options paper" I
wrote), and according to Satoshi some years ago as well.

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