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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:47:21 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NO_ knobs in /etc/make.conf
Message-ID:  <6BA87BDA-FFAC-4329-B720-98666204FB3F@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <200801230924.37310.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <47949811.1080505@raad.tartu.ee> <479501BE.4040309@FreeBSD.org> <99B0737B-9876-4D86-A9DC-FB5FAD21CB21@kcilink.com> <200801230924.37310.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:24 AM, John Baldwin wrote:

>> What was broken that required this to be "fixed"?
>
> Inconsistent use of what NO_FOO= meant.  Some places only checked if  
> it
> was set, other places required it to be set to "yes", so NO_FOO=no
> might disable FOO or it might not.  The WITHOUT_* / WITH_* scheme was

I guess I wasn't clear about my confusion. What was broken about  
putting all this in make.conf that necessitated a src.conf file too?

Having the names consistent is great, though.




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