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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:32:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        nbm@mithrandr.moria.org
Cc:        hetzels@westbend.net, jeh@FreeBSD.ORG, sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG, joseph@randomnetworks.com, lioux@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www Makefile ports/www/frontpage-es  Makefiledistinfo pkg-comment
Message-ID:  <200201031632.g03GWhf49137@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020103120225.A29560@mithrandr.moria.org>

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On  3 Jan, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> But  ghostscript, I  imagine, doesn't  support being  built once,  and
> having  stuff added  on  later,  so it's  not  a  target. But  luckily
> someone  was clever  and  removed  the X  dependency  when making  the
> ghostscript-nox11 port. Yay, now I  can use ghostscript on my machines
> out of the box from the package!

There are  about 170 more  optional parts  of the ghostscript  port. For
consistency, we need  to have a pre-built package  for every combination
(only 2^170)...

> (This would  be a joking  reminder that  people disagree with  you and
> don't use  FreeBSD the _exact_ _same_  _way_ as you, and  that's not a
> problem,  and thus  we  should try  to accomodate  people  as much  as
> possible.)

I agree. We just disagree on how much IS possible...

	-mi


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