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Date:      Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:36:41 +0100
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, marino@freebsd.org, Koop Mast <kwm@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r411827 - head/graphics/colord
Message-ID:  <56F53EE9.6020205@marino.st>
In-Reply-To: <690F1BE4A0388E08467AC546@ogg.in.absolight.net>
References:  <201603250934.u2P9YWJR080252@repo.freebsd.org> <E39A5BCC6A91ED29F7546903@ogg.in.absolight.net> <56F538B4.5040800@marino.st> <690F1BE4A0388E08467AC546@ogg.in.absolight.net>

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On 3/25/2016 2:29 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +--On 25 mars 2016 14:10:12 +0100 John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
> Well, yes, but they can always change the options, or add texlive to their
> blacklist, or something.  People are always going to complain.  And, there
> will be 12526 happy users that won't say a thing, and 1 person that's
> pissed texlive got built, and that will complain, the default will change,
> and then the former happy people will be pissed.

My recommendation was to pregenerate the man pages.  The issue is that 
doc-utils is used for it.  The impact is that any program that needs 
gtk30 pulls in a 1.8G tarball.  This is a REAL issue.  There should be 
conscious effort to disable anything that pulls in texlive by default. 
Or something that has to be OPT in for freebsd cluster.

This is not a case of "somebody will always complain", it's an issue 
that the policy is bad.  The 1.8G texlive is a major issue with no 
resolution in sight.

So either leave MANPAGES off by default, or pregenerate them and install 
from a second tar ball.


> BTW, I started using your default options removal script, I got bitten by
> it removing the options for multimedia/libdvdread because I had added the
> DVDCSS option that is not the default when PACKAGE_BUILDING... :-)

Yes, that's the danger with these cute ports that have options list that 
change dynamically.  I'm not sure what can be done about that except to 
discourage the practice.

John







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