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Date:      Mon, 4 Jun 2001 06:51:58 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: docs/27843: [PATCH] make.conf WITH_* variables aren't documented.
Message-ID:  <15131.30302.840947.985713@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010604133830.E95557@sunbay.com>
References:  <20010603015304.51270.qmail@guru.mired.org> <20010604133830.E95557@sunbay.com>

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> On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:53:04AM -0000, mwm@mired.org wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> types:
> > The various WITH_* and WITHOUT_* variables in the ports make system
> > aren't documented.
> These should probably go into the ports(7) manpage.

Possibly true. On the other hand, there's a lot of things in the
make.conf man page that should go there as well, and a lot of
duplication between the two.

Someone should decide which of the two pages they belong in (*), merge
them into one place with an appropriate replacement in the other, and
add a reference to make.conf(7) to ports(7). I'm willing to do the
work; I just want to make sure it goes in the right place before
starting.

	<mike

*) I'd vote for putting them in make.conf(7), as doing so would help fix
one of the bugs on the ports(7) man page: "This man page is too long."
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