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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2011 01:28:05 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/wine Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/emulators/wine/files patch-dlls-wineoss.drv
Message-ID:  <20110516012805.GA88914@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110515180819.GB29366@lonesome.com>
References:  <201105140021.p4E0LlP7029193@repoman.freebsd.org> <20110514082018.GC97304@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1105150744430.28608@gerinyyl> <20110515155920.GB19328@FreeBSD.org> <20110515180819.GB29366@lonesome.com>

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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 01:08:19PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 03:59:20PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Carefully selected and reasonable defaults is one of the strong sides
> > of ports (and thus packages) that we offer, despite all aforementioned
> > drawbacks.
> 
> User feedback at the last 2 conferences that I have been to, is that we
> are insufficiently consistent in our defaults.  (In particular, X11 and
> CUPS are frequently mentioned as offenders; there are others.)  This
> primarily affects our default-built packages.

I would say there is only minor CUPS inconsistency (most of the times it
is correctly disabled; few remaining ports should be converted I think);
for X11 it's a bit more tricky: roughly, if a port is likely enough to
be used in non-X11 environment (or it's a server only thing), no X11
support by default seems reasonable for package.  Otherwise having X11
dependency is natural, since those bits would be installed by 99% of
desktop users anyways.

./danfe



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