Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:46:34 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Parv <parv@pair.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel Makefile pkg-plist ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel/files patch-configure Message-ID: <20050915144634.GA65015@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050915131224.GB94650@FreeBSD.org> References: <200509132211.j8DMBYpj090708@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050914022354.GA7740@holestein.holy.cow> <20050914061957.GA13354@FreeBSD.org> <20050914222511.GA11455@holestein.holy.cow> <20050915131224.GB94650@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:12:24PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > IMHO, sticking to an old-world order, you're locking yourself of out > many advantages that OPTIONS bring to you. There're about a dozen of > options, and more will appear (I'm about to pull some nifty Gentoo > patches to fvwm2-devel in some near future). Without OPTIONS, our users > would have to read the Makefile (well, that could be avoided by priting > them in pre-everything:: target), but they would still need to manually > define all those knobs on command line (or in pkgtools.conf). Or stick them in /etc/make.conf and still have them available for every build. I'm more than able to use 'vi' and edit /etc/make.conf. And I don't get surprises later when I start some 'make install' of a package with dependencies and walk away - only to find it stopped wanting to know if I want to select some mostly useless options. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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