Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:13:50 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup <seb@struchtrup.com> Subject: Re: alternative options for ports Message-ID: <20041014031350.GS22274@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <20041014024646.GB90017@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <416C0DE8.3000004@struchtrup.com> <416C35A5.4040703@vonostingroup.com> <20041013123840.GB1301@FreeBSD.org> <20041013193432.GA53895@hub.freebsd.org> <416DAB52.5070404@struchtrup.com> <20041014024646.GB90017@dragon.nuxi.com>
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>> (10.13.2004 @ 2246 PST): David O'Brien said, in 1.8K: << > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:25:22AM +0200, Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup wrote: > > David O'Brien wrote: > > > > >OPTIONS isn't the answer -- they don't do anything for 'pkg_add -r' > > >users. > > > > > That's a problem. I agree. > > But what about ports having 10 different options? > > Probably it would make sense to build the most common configurations in > > such a case. > > On the other hand, the user must know which package to add for a given > > port with a given config. > > I am not familiar with packages and package building in detail. > > You only have to be as famiar with pre-built package flavors as you are > with build OPTIONS. How do you know which compile options you want? For > which package flavor to install, you can use 'sysinstall' which will > show you both the 1-line desciption along with the longer one to help you > in your choices. > > > > >Since we go to a *lot* of work building packages and making them > > >available there must be a huge number of consumers of them. We should be > > >making more port variations. vim-gtk, vim-kde, vim-athena, vim-motif for > > >instance. That way a pkg_add user and get what they want. > > > > > I assume that this is currently done by hand? To say build the vim port > > with options --with-gtk, --with-kde and --with_arena? > > Or is there a way to set this in a Makefile? Not only altering the > > package name from vim to vim-xxx, but to define configurations for > > automatic package building? > > Currently one defines WITH_* knobs and then compiles. One of the WITH_ > knobs is the default GUI build. For non-X11 GUI there is the 'vim-lite' > port. >> end of "Re: alternative options for ports" from David O'Brien << Ohhh... you know, until now, I didn't know that that's what the vim-lite package is. David, could you please consider making note of that in the COMMENT string or by creating a vim-lite/pkg-descr or something? I had thought that the only way to get vim without X11 was to compile vim -DWITHOUT_X11. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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