Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:21:46 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passing arguments to *_DEPENDS Message-ID: <b303tq$1q3b$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20030219003422.GD31515@rot13.obsecurity.org> <BA786D6D.2915F%ade@lovett.com>
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Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> wrote: > An alternate, and also compatible view is to run a sweep through the ports > tree, ensure that all such optional stuff is controlled by a WITH_* or > WITHOUT_* variable (much needed standardization anyway), and then have > +CONTENTS modified with a new @options:[<opt1[=val1],[opt2=...]] field. > I believe we need to rethink the concept of ports either being thin (minimal > number of dependencies) or thick (maximal dependencies), and work on a > generic optional-dependency system that individual ports may use. OpenBSD's FLAVOR system, in short. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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