Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:26:23 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limitations of Ports System Message-ID: <4762F4FF.8080400@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071214204530.GA812@menantico.com> References: <475F7390.9090509@gmail.com> <0F330142-A3CA-4E6E-84BD-FDE55A8E3AEE@yahoo.com> <20071213111050.O6078@wonkity.com> <200712140312.47837.danny@ricin.com> <4761F9E2.7090706@gmail.com> <20071214121906.1241dcdd@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4762E71E.4040403@gmail.com> <20071214204530.GA812@menantico.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Skip Ford wrote: > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> RW wrote: >>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" >>> <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and def with >>>> 345 and 678 then 345 will be cached for def since we already >>>> set it for abc. >>> How do you know the user wants 345 set on both ports? >>> >>> It might be a useful stable feature on "abc", but causes >>> lock-ups on "def" >> There are multiple ways to handle the effects of 345 on def... >> only one of them is to automatically apply it the other two are >> def can ignore it by default or make it suer settable > > Other than the automatic caching apsect, how would this be any > different from what we already have with ports-mgmt/portconf? > > Currently, if you want a knob to apply to all ports, you wildcard > the knob in your ports.conf file. If you want the same knob > defined differently depending on port name, you define it per port. > Often it is not possible to know if you want a knob until seeing it in context... see my reply to RW for more info -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHYvT/zIOMjAek4JIRAul8AJ9dSWyYDGJTOh1d9ffBrPtBDsbKOwCgirF1 003NMaY15t0i3H2950Yt3Lw= =R/xP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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