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Date:      Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:28:45 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/wine Makefile
Message-ID:  <alpine.LNX.2.00.1009062015370.17560@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <4C85284D.8000707@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201009061123.o86BNY5u061220@repoman.freebsd.org> <4C85284D.8000707@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Log:
>> Explicitly configure using --without-xcomposite, --without-xinerama and
>> --without-xrandr so that builds are more reproduciable and we avoi hidden
>> dependencies when building outside of a minimal build environment, thus
>> making packages more portable.
> That sounds very reasonable. I'm just wondering if you could add OPTIONS 
> to enable those features however ...

The short answer is: yes, based on concrete user feedback I have added
and will continue to add OPTIONS.

The longer answers is: Wine itself has 44 --enable/--disable knobs and I
guess we do not want to have that many OPTIONS nor do we want to build it
with the maximum number of features and thus dependencies.  What I am
trying to do is to have those features that are relevant for most users
always built, those where I see little to no use always disabled, and 
those in between as OPTIONS.  As I receive input and suggestions from 
users, I move things between those three categories, the most common,
but not sole, move being the one from the disabled to the OPTIONS bucket.

Does that sound like a reasonable approach?


Now, for some reason in the last week or two I have received more
suggestions on this front than the entire year before, so you'll
see me and my tester busy for a few evenings. :-)

Gerald



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