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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:41:14 -0500
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r308655 - in head/games/xmoto: . files
Message-ID:  <2c086065eb33d54adac9a85832e9f8ad@mail.adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121211132128.GA50148@hades.panopticon>
References:  <201212110314.qBB3EErH082058@svn.freebsd.org> <20121211033625.GA39028@FreeBSD.org> <20121211132128.GA50148@hades.panopticon>

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On 2012/12/11 08:21, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> Not adding them to OPTIONS_DEFINE preserves previous behaviour and I
> don't think NLS and DOCS should be in the OPTIONS_DEFINE ever - they 
> are
> only meaningful to be set globally, and having them in individual 
> ports
> makes large builds much more painful, as a user has to set them for 
> tons
> of ports (even more painful without portmaster or knowing of
> config-recursive).

I think there is some benefit to explicitly adding them with 
discretion. Ports like ImageMagick, or the Berkeley DB ports, which 
install massive amounts of documentation, are really nice to be able to 
selectively disable DOCS for. I think port maintainers can put DOCS in 
OPTIONS in a meaningful and useful way.

# Adam


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