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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:13:58 -0400
From:      "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
To:        Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Olafur Osvaldsson <osvaldsson@icelandic.net>, pgollucci@freebsd.org, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@freebsd.org>, araujo@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/125625: [PATCH] dns/nsd: USE_RC_SUBR != yes
Message-ID:  <48874AB6.6080604@p6m7g8.com>
In-Reply-To: <a01628140807230806v1706061aqd15d5825d6dbbb1@mail.gmail.com>
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Florent Thoumie wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:08:03 +0100
>> "Florent Thoumie" <flz@xbsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Olafur Osvaldsson
>>> <osvaldsson@icelandic.net> wrote:
>>>> This is something the PR responsible introduced in his original
>>>> patch...
>>> It's still present in your version. Anyway, I'm not blaming anyone,
>>> just pointing out what I think is a mistake.
>> So this is not for the user but for the port?
>>
>> I'll do a swap on the tree for it, because I'm sure there are more
>> ports doing something like:
>> .ifndef(NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES)
>> ......
>> .endif
I was talking to itectu@ about this, and figured it would be better in 
Mk/bsd.port.mk.


> The general rule of thumb is: if it doesn't begin with WITH_ or
> WITHOUT_, it's not user-settable. NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES is used for
> ports using imake that don't understand the install.man target.
/me thought that was the USE_ vs WITH(OUT)?_ difference.

NO* is supposed to be user settable right ?

> 
> Now of course there are exceptions (usually for no good reason IMHO).
> The likes of NOPORTDOCS/NOPORTEXAMPLES/... could be changed to
> WITHOUT_DOCS/WITHOUT_EXAMPLES, it's just waiting for somebody to do
> the work.
Heh, maybe, I kind of feel like it will get reject as a style(9) change.

I'm all for it though, not saying I'm going to do it though.




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