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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:53:50 +0200
From:      "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
To:        Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ./options-descr file suggestion for ports
Message-ID:  <467004FE.60109@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <A2E1DABC-0F0E-475C-B282-0CC07C4278B5@khera.org>
References:  <200706090936.51775.david@vizion2000.net>	<20070609203316.GC71246@voodoo.bawue.com>	<20070611151636.GA16517@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>	<822946050706120826r75835defj2dbf76fc2ecfccb6@mail.gmail.com>	<20070613093658.dk1r5iud8gssss0o@webmail.leidinger.net> <A2E1DABC-0F0E-475C-B282-0CC07C4278B5@khera.org>

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Vivek Khera wrote:
> 
> On Jun 13, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
>> First there where no OPTIONS, then OPTIONS was introduced. If you feel
>> annoyed by those ports which are not converted yet to OPTIONS (because
>> nobody felt annoyed enough to convert them), feel free to submit
>> patches for them.
> 
> personally, I'm annoyed by ports that use OPTIONS because I cannot then
> set them globally in my make.conf file (which is copied around to all my
> servers).  I have to ensure that the proper OPTIONS are set on every
> machine on which I may build a port.
> 
> Is it possible (and/or is anyone working on) a way to make the options
> setting non-interactive and pull the settings from a config file instead?

Look at the ports man page:

BATCH=yes

If not options files exist the options as set in /etc/make.conf will be used.



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