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Date:      Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:50:47 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: putting HESIOD, Appletalk and IPX on notice 
Message-ID:  <22301.1123275047@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Aug 2005 16:39:02 EDT." <20050805203901.GA88453@xor.obsecurity.org> 

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In message <20050805203901.GA88453@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes:

>> Cool. I think the standard is "WANT_FOO", but that is a detail. It 
>> may be an idea to make these default to "off" in releases, but keep
>> them in HEAD until they become too painful to care about. That 
>> would probably handle the CYB factor the best.
>
>Ports uses WITH_*/WITHOUT_* for user control knobs, and WANT_* is for
>internal port use only.

I can see a benefit from being orthogonal to ports usage in this, so
I think the YES_FOO is actually the right thing.

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