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Date:      Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:41:01 +0100
From:      "Pav Lucistnik" <pav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Danny Pansters" <danny@ricin.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Opinion on cross-port OPTIONS CONFLICTS
Message-ID:  <20071222163747.M10597@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200712220155.48097.danny@ricin.com>
References:  <200712211524.25454.josh@tcbug.org> <200712220007.45753.danny@ricin.com> <1198283363.95955.11.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <200712220155.48097.danny@ricin.com>

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> > That's why you do slave port with an option toggled, when you need a
> > package you can depend on. OPTIONS haven't changed this aspect.
> 
> But you can't readily specify option X enabled, option Y disabled on 
> that slave port. 

You can, that's the point.

> There may come a time when it's decided to either have vanilla 
> plists and seperate one(s) with options or dont track plists for non 
> default options at all. I bet most/many non-default ports don't get 
> properly packaged anyway as it is.

Port needs to package cleanly with any combination of OPTIONS specified. If it
doesn't, it needs to be fixed.

--
Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
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